When a Trust servant oificiates in a post, the pay of which has been fixed at avate personzl to another Trust servant, the Committee may permit him to draw pay at any rate not excecding the rate so fixed or, if the rate so fixed bo a time-scale, may grant him initial pay not exceeding the lower stage of that time-scale and future increments not exceeding those of the sanctioned scale.
18. Power to fix officiating pay at alower rate.~ A competent autharity miy fix the pay of an officiating Trust servant at an amount less than that admissible under these regulations.
117 Note 1.~ When the pay of & Trust servant who is appointed to officiate in a post on a time-scale of pay is fixed below the minimum of the time-seale under this regulation, he must not be treated as having-effectual officiated in that post within the meaning of regulation 10 or having rendered duty in it within the meaning of regulation 27;
Note 2.~ [n cases in which a vacancy is expected to last less than sixteen days a Trust servant may be placed in charge of the current duties of the post hut no formal appointment to officiate should be made unless a formal appointient is essential for the reasons tobe recorded in writing, Instruction- Reading this regulation with the regulations substantively regulating the rate of officiating pay. and in partigular with regulation 18, it is clear that the power conferred by this regulation, is not exercisable save by a special order passed i an individual case and on the consideration of the facts of that case A general order purporting to eustuniversally the operation of regulation 15 would be wla vires of this regulation. Al[lmugh, the practice of oblaining special orders on every individual case would not be ultra vires of this regulation, it would cause the greatest possible fraud thereon. - 18, Personal pay to decrease in proportion to increase in basic pay.- | Except when the authority sanctioning it orders otherwise, personal pay shall be reduced by any amount by which the recipient’s pay may be | increased and shall cease altogether as soon as his pay is increased by an amount equal to his personal pay.