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- Introduction
- Chapter 1 - Taking Up Appointment
- Section 1.1 - Recruitment
- Section 1.2 - Working Arrangements
- Section 1.3 - Probation
- Section 1.4 - Letters of Appointment and Information on Pensions
- Section 1.5 - Fast Stream Development Programme
- Section 1.6 - Appointment and Management of Specialists
- Section 1.7 - Re-appointment: Reinstatement and Re-employment
- Chapter 2 - Equal Opportunities In The Civil Service
- Chapter 3 - Health And Safety At Work
- Chapter 4 Conduct And Discipline
- Section 4.1 - Conduct: General Principles and Rules
- Section 4.2 - Conduct: Confidentiality and Official Information
- Section 4.3 - Conduct: Standards of Propriety
- Annex A: Rules on the Acceptance of Outside Appointments by Crown Servants
- Annex B: Guidance for Departments and Agencies on the Rules on the Acceptance of Outside Appointments by Crown Servants
- Section 4.4 - Conduct: Political Activities
- Section 4.5 - Dismissal, Discipline and Grievance: Rules and Code of Practice
- Chapter 5 - The Senior Civil Service
- Section 5.1 - General
- Section 5.2 - The SASC Group
- Section 5.3 -Senior Civil Service Terms and Conditions
- Chapter 6 - Management And Development
- Section 6.1 - Grading and Classification of Staff
- Section 6.2 -Personal Review
- Section 6.3 - Poor Performance: Inefficiency and Limited Efficiency
- Section 6.4 - Promotion and Lateral Transfers
- Chapter 7 - Pay And Allowances
- Section 7.1 - Remuneration of Staff
- Annex A: Senior Civil Service Pay Framework
- Annex B: Allowances for Members of the Senior Civil Service
- Section 7.2 - Advances of Pay
- Section 7.3 - Voluntary Deductions from Pay
- Section 7.4 - Rent for Government-Owned Properties
- Chapter 8 - Expenses
- Section 8.1 - Reimbursement of Expenses
- Section 8.2 - Travel
- Section 8.3 - Relocation
- Section 8.4 - Compensation for Loss or Damage to Personal Property
- Section 8.5 - Concessionary Arrangements for Staff Working in Northern Ireland
- Section 8.6 - Overseas Expenses
- Chapter 9 - Hours, Holidays and Attendance
- Section 9.1 - Hours of Work
- Section 9.2 - Holidays and Attendance
- Section 9.3 - Maternity Arrangements
- Section 9.4 - Attendance during National Emergencies
- Section 9.5 - Sick Absence
- Section 9.6 - Injury, Disease or Assault at Work.
- Chapter 10 - Staff Movement and Redeployment
- Section 10.1 - Mobility
- Section 10.2 - Transfer of Staff between Departments and Agencies
- Section 10.3 - Secondment
- Section 10.4 - Service with the European Institutions
- Chapter 11 - Leaving the Civil Service
- Section 11.1 - Notice and References
- Section 11.2 - Action Before Leaving the Civil Service
- Section 11.3 - Normal Retirement Age
- Section 11.4 - Dismissal for Inefficiency
- Section 11.5 - Early Retirement or Severance
- Section 11.6 - Compulsory Early Retirement or Severance
- Section 11.7 - Flexible Early Retirement or Severance
- Section 11.8 - Approved Early Retirement
- Section 11.9 - Actuarially Reduced Retirement
- Section 11.10 - Medical Retirement
- Chapter 12 - Appeals and Legal Representation at Public Expense