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27 of 1985
The Post Office Service Amendment Act 27 of 1985 intends:
- to amend the Post Office Service Act, 1974 [repealed in April 1998], so as
- to delete the definition of certain expressions and to define or further define certain expressions;
- to amend the categories in which personnel and posts in the Department of Posts and Telecommunications are classified;
- to extend the powers of the Staff Management Board regarding former officers and employees and to change the limitations on the delegation of powers by the Board;
- to empower the Board to determine the procedure to be followed at its meetings and for the submission of matters to it;
- to make provision for the appointment of officers or employees to act in the place of absent incumbents of posts;
- to empower the Postmaster General to change the rank designation of an officer or employee on his transfer from one post or appointment to another;
- to express more clearly the provision according to which the Board may in an exceptional case authorize any deviation from a condition of service;
- to provide for the appointment of a person as Postmaster General for a specified term and for the extension of such term;
- to make other provision relating to the health requirements with which persons appointed permanently in the department, should comply;
- to delete the provision which requires that particulars in respect of persons appointed from outside the department in certain posts, shall be furnished by the Board in its annual report;
- to delete the provision which requires that certain decisions of the Board relating to probationary appointments shall be approved by the Minister;
- to extend the powers of the Board and the Postmaster General relating to steps to be taken when probationary appointments in certain posts cannot be confirmed;
- to define more closely the arrangements relating to the transfer of personnel between the department and other State Departments, governments, bodies, institutions or authorities;
- to make other provision relating to the retirement of the officer occupying the post of Postmaster General;
- to extend the grounds on which officers may be discharged;
- to delete the provision which prohibits a female officer from remaining in the service of the department after her marriage;
- to define more closely the manner in which an officer may be punished for a service irregularity and to increase the fine that may be imposed in respect of such an irregularity;
- to extend the definition of misconduct;
- to provide for the Minister to delegate to an officer the power to appoint a person to investigate a charge of misconduct;
- to transfer from the Minister to the Postmaster General the power to decide on the punishment for misconduct by the incumbents of certain posts;
- to increase the maximum fine that may be imposed for misconduct;
- to empower the Postmaster General to delegate to an officer his power to postpone his decision on punishment in a specific case of misconduct;
- to empower the Minister to grant any particular service benefit to the incumbent of the post of Postmaster General;
- to provide for certain procedures and actions relating to the receipt by officers and employees of unauthorized and wrongly granted remuneration;
- to further define the provisions relating to the decreasing of officers' salaries;
- to delete the provision that the Minister may delegate his power to condone the infringement of certain provisions of the Act;
- to extend the circumstances under which officers may be specbdly promoted;
- to repeal the restrictions on legal proceedings against the department;
- to extend the powers of the Minister to make regulations; and
- to transfer from the Board to the Postmaster General the powers relating to the drawing up of a code regarding certain aspects of conditions of service; and
- to provide for incidental matters.
Commencement
1 April1985
