L830 CONVENTION-AMERICAN RIGHTS IN IRAQ. JAN. 9, 1930. Bobedule U-Contd. in the grade prescribed for the post at such a point as will give him a total salary not less than the salary which he is drawing at the time of signing the new contract. In calculating such salary regard shall be had to the number of months which he has served towards the new Increment due under his old contract. (it.) Junior Administrative Inspectors shall be placed at such a poiDt in Grade IV as shall give them the salary nearest (either above or below) to their present salary plus Rs. 200, their position as regards increments being taken Into account as above. (iU.) In order to enable them to meet the extra expense which will be involved by the payment of rent, lighting and conservancy charges, married officers (other than Junior Adm1nlstrative Inspectors) stationed in Bagdad, Basrah or Mosul, and drawing pay at the rate of less than Rs. 1,500 per mensem, shall be granted a personal allowance, to be absorbed in future increments, of Re. 150 or such portion of Rs. 150 as shall together with their salary amount to Re. 1,500 per mensem in all. SCHEDULE 8. REGULATIONS RELATING TO THE SERVICE OF BRITISH OFFICIALS IN Iuq. .Period of Service. 1. - (1.) Every official whom it is desired to employ in the Iraq Govern- ment will be required to enter into an agreement to serve the Iraq Government for a definite period, to be specified in his agreement, of five, ten or 1'fteen years. (2.) Such period of service will commence on the date on which he embarks to take up his appointment, or in the case of an offiCial already serving In Iraq, on a date to be fixed in his contract. and shall not be considered to be interrupted by any local, sick or ordinary leave granted in accordance with these regulations. (3.) Except in the case of officials who before the commencement of such period of service have served not less than one year In the Iraq Government and whose retention in the posts in which they are specialised has been asked for by the Iraq Government, the first year (or, in the case of officials referred to in Note (i) under Grade III In SChedule 2, the first two years) of such period of service shall be probationary and the official's contract may be terminated at the end of the first or second year, as the case may be, by three months' notice in writing, and when such noticg is given the High Commissioner shall be given an opportunity to give his opinion regarding the official concerned. On such termination of his contract, the official shall be entitled to any leave or leave gratuity which he has earned and a free passage to England for himself. He shall receive from the Provident Fund only the amount of such contributions as he has made thereto. Salary. 2. -(1.) The salary of an offici9.l, together with the increment to it, will be that provided for his office in schedule 2, provided that- (a.) In the case of officials already serving under the Iraq Government and (b) in the case of new appointments of officials with special experience or quali1icatlons, the initial salary of an official may be fixed by his contract at a point In the grade of his office higher than the Initial salary of the grade. Half Salary during Voyage on AppOintment. (Ii.) On being appointed an official will be entitled to half salary from the date of his embarkation to take up his new appointment to the date of his arrival in Iraq and to full salary from the date of his arrivai. in Iraq. (iii.) For the purpose of this and the succeeding regulations the term .. salary" means the salary attached to the office held by the official and does not include a personal allowance or other payment made to the official. The term .. emoluments" means and includes all payments made to an official Including salary and allowances of every kino. (Jurrency of Payme~'t in, Iraq. 3.- (1.) Subject to clause 16 of these regulations, emoluments paid in Iraq will be peid in rupees. (2.) An official, on giving three months' notice, shall have the option of drLwing one-third of his salary In London at the fixed conversion rate of B',. 15 to £1, or in the event of the currency being altered at the par rate of exchh:lge. An official who shall have avalled himself on this option may, by giving three months' notice. cancel the arrangement and draw his salary In rupees in Iraq.
