Civil Service Commissioners Act, 1956

PART III.

Appointments to certain Positions in the Civil Service.

Chapter I.

Competitive Appointments.

Appointment of persons to established positions, with certain exceptions.

13.—(1) No person shall be appointed to an established position unless the Commissioners, after holding a competition under section 15, have, under section 17, selected him for appointment to that position.

(2) Subsection (1) of this section does not apply to—

(a) the appointment of a person to an established position on promotion or transfer from another established position, or

(b) the appointment of a person to an established position under section 11 of the Regulation Act.

(3) Subsection (1) of this section does not apply to the appointment of a person to a particular established position where—

(a) the appropriate authority with, in case he is not the Minister, the consent of the Minister, recommends the appointment of that person to that established position, and

(b) the Government, having considered such recommendation, decide that such appointment would be in the public interest.

(4) Subsection (1) of this section does not apply to the appointment of a person to a particular established position where—

(a) that person was appointed to an unestablished position as the result of a competition, the regulations for which made under subsection (3) of section 16 provide that a person appointed thereto may, in certain specified circumstances, be subsequently appointed to that established position, and

(b) the Commissioners are satisfied that the provisions of the said regulations, relating to his prospective appointment to the said established position and such conditions as they may determine have been complied with.