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Remuneration of servants and of certain officers.
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42.—(1) In this section, the word “employment” shall be construed as including, in addition to the employment of a servant of a local authority, an office other than a major office.
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(2) A local authority shall not—
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(a) pay remuneration in respect of an employment held by any person immediately before the 26th day of August, 1942, unless they pay the remuneration either at a rate not greater than the rate at which they paid remuneration in respect of the employment immediately before that date or at a higher rate for the time being sanctioned by the appropriate Minister, or
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(b) pay remuneration in respect of an employment of a class the same as one in which they employed persons immediately before the 26th day of August, 1942, unless they pay the remuneration either at a rate not greater than the rate at which they paid remuneration in respect of employment of that class immediately before that date or at a higher rate for the time being sanctioned by the appropriate Minister, or
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(c) pay remuneration to a person employed or appointed after the commencement of this section to fill a vacancy in an employment as respects which neither paragraph (a) nor paragraph (b) of this subsection is applicable unless they pay the remuneration either at a rate not greater than the rate at which they paid remuneration in respect of the employment immediately before the occurrence of the vacancy or at a higher rate for the time being sanctioned by the appropriate Minister, or
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(d) pay remuneration in respect of an employment as respects which neither paragraph (a), paragraph (b) nor paragraph (c) of this subsection is applicable unless they pay the remuneration at a rate for the time being sanctioned by the appropriate Minister.
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(3) The appropriate Minister may at any time revoke a sanction given by him for the purposes of subsection (2) of this section.
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(4) If the Emergency Powers (No. 216) Order, 1942 (S. R. & O., No. 433 of 1942), is revoked on the date of the commencement of this section, a sanction which was given by the Minister for the purposes of Article 3 of that Order shall continue in force and be deemed to be a sanction given by the Minister for the purposes of subsection (2) of this section and shall be capable of being revoked accordingly.
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