Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 1)

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Press

Year of publication:: 1912-

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1896934455

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-236504

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 1

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: LI, 568 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part II. The executive Government

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350 THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT [parT 11 can be retrenched, but only for bona fide retrenchment pur- poses, and they, if accused of important offences, must be tried by a board of inquiry, when they may be deprived of leave or fined by the departmental head, reduced in status by the Commissioner, or dismissed by the Governor-General in Council, according to the enormity of the offence. Moreover, they have civil claims for the salaries payable to them just as ordinary persons have against their employers, though in the Defence Department the rule is that no contract exists, but members can sue for sums due if deprived of office. On the other hand, the Government does not provide pensions, a serious error which is hardly made up for by the practice of requiring officers to insure their lives. But to compensate for this there is a minimum wage of £110 for officers over twenty-one years of age and a report on a pension scheme has been issued. As in the case of Canada, and in the case of all the states, the scheme is defective in not providing for any regular Civil Service which shall contain men of superior education : in the Commonwealth service the members of the clerical service are admitted by an elementary examination, and work up through the grades and subdivisions of the grades, in each of which a year at least must normally be spent. Thus for the posts of deputy heads, and so on, it is necessary to go outside the service and to choose men who are not trained civil servants! The result is that no Dominion contains such a Civil Service as that of England. In the states also the practice of leaving the Civil Service to the control of a local public service commission which is supreme over first appointments, and also over promotions and so forth, is in force. It is successful in its aim of securing that as a whole the service is free from political jobbery ; if, as is the case, there are from time to time disputes of some seriousness between the commission and the Government, as, for instance, in the case of the determination of the Government of the Commonwealth to make the post of * e.g. in the case of Mr. Atlee Hunt. deputy head of the Department of External Affairs

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