Regulations, 2000

L.N. 89 of 2000

LOCAL COUNCILS ACT, 1993

( ACT NO. XV OF 1993)

Local Councils (Human Resources) (Amendment)

Regulations, 2000

IN exercise of the powers conferred by subsection (2) of section

53 and by section 72 of the Local Councils Act, 1993, the Minister for

Justice and Local Government, with the concurrence of the Minister of

Finance has made the following regulations

(1) These regulations may be cited as the Local Councils Citationand

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commencement.

(Human Resources) (Amendment) RegulatIOns, 2000, and shall be read

and construed as one with the Local Councils (Human Resources)

Regulations, 1998, hereinafter referred to as "the principal regulations".

(2) Regulations 3,4,5 and 6 hereof, shall be deemed to L.N.127ofl998.

apply to all new contracts which come into force fifteen days after the

publication of this order in the Gazette.

(3) Paragraph (3) of regulation (1) of the principal

regulations shall be deleted.

For the words "Secretary" and "Secretaries wherever they ~ndmento~

occur in the principal regulations there shall be substituted in each case vanous regulabons.

the words "Executive Secretary" and "Executive Secretaries".

For sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (2) of regulation 4 of the Amends n:~ation

principal regulations, there shall be substituted the following new sub- ~~~:':C1pa1

paragraph (a) as follows

"(a)

Full-time Executive Secretary

where the Council size is -

9 to 13 members

not more than the maximum of Scale 5

7 members

not more than the maximum of Scale 6

5 members

not more than the maximum of Scale 7.

The remuneration hereabove mentioned shall be in accordance

with employment conditions shown in regulation 27, Part V of these

regulations. Provided that the Executive Secretaries who on the 2nd

June, 2000 occupy the position of Executive Secretaries shall be paid

the maximum of their relative scale.".

The proviso to paragraph (1) of regulation 5 of the principal

regulations shall be deleted.

Paragraph (2) ofregulation 24 of the principal regulations shall

be deleted, and paragraph (1) thereof shall be indicated as regulation

6. For regulation 27 of the principal regulations there shall be

substituted the following

The appointment of new employees in the service

of the Council, including that of the Executive Secretaries,

shall be subject to a term of probation as follows

(a) Persons employed as Executive Secretaries for

the first time shall be subject to a term of probation of

one year and shall be placed on the second notch below

the maximum of the respective scale. The Executive

Secretary whose contract is renewed by the same

Council, shall not be subject to any other probation.

(b) An Executive Secretary whose contract with

the Council has terminated or been terminated, enters

into a new contract with a different Council, shall be

subject to probation for a period of one year and shall be

paid the maximum of the relative salary scale.".