Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Act, 1926.

Qualifications for admission to examinations.

2.—(1) Sub-section (2) of section 4 of the Principal Act shall be construed and have effect and shall be deemed always to have had effect as if the word “sex” were inserted therein immediately after the words “qualifications as to.”

(2) The said section 4 of the Principal Act shall be construed and have effect and shall be deemed always to have had effect as if the following sub-section were inserted therein in lieu of the sub-section (3) now contained therein, that is to say:—

“(3) The Commissioners may with the consent of the Minister by special regulation confine any such competitive examination to such of the persons mentioned in the foregoing sub-section as belong to a specified class delimited in such manner or by reference to such matter as the Commissioners shall think proper, and where an examination is so confined only such of the persons aforesaid as belong to such specified class shall be admitted thereto.”

(3) Sub-section (4) of section 4 of the Principal Act shall apply to every regulation made by the Commissioners confining an examination to members of a particular sex as fully as if such regulation were a special regulation.