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(1) The effective date of an officer’s promotion will be the date of the County Public Service Board decision.

(2) Promotion within common establishment posts shall be effective from the date the officer qualifies.

(3) If an officer has been appointed by the County Public Service Board to act in a post and is subsequently promoted to it without any interval between the appointment in an acting capacity and the date of his substantive promotion, the effective date of promotion will be the date on which he commenced to act.

 

Seniority

Seniority of public officers shall be determined as follows:

(1) As between public officers of the same grade:

(i) By reference to the dates on which they respectively entered the grade.

(ii) If the public officers entered that grade on the same day, by reference to their seniority on the day immediately preceding that day.

(iii) If any public officers who entered the same grade on the same day did so by appointment and not by promotion, then seniority relative to each other shall be determined by reference to their respective ages.

(2)eAs between public officers of different grades on the same salary scale  r the same flat rate of salary, by refe ence to the datesion whichtthey respectively entered their grades.

(3) As between public officers of different grades on different salary scales, by reference to the maximum point on their salary scale, a flat rate of salary being regarded for this purpose as a salary scale with a maximum point equivalent to the flat rate.