§ MR. MONKsaid, he wished to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, Whether the District Registrar Clerks of the Court of Probate, whose salaries are provided for in Vote 5, Class 3. page 151. of the Civil Service Estimates, are Civil Servants within the meaning of section 17 of the Act 22 Vic. c. 26?
§ MR. AYRTONreplied in the negative, adding- that the clerks in question do not comply with two conditions which are imposed upon civil servants. They were not exclusively employed in the work of the registrar for the public service; but they were able to engage in private business, which many of them did. In exceptional cases, where the business of the registrar was large, the dorks might, be exclusively engaged upon it; but, as a rule, this class of clerks was regarded as having a mixed employment. Secondly, these clerks were not subject to examination by the Civil Service Commissioners on their first employment, and, therefore, they did not comply with the conditions which would entitle them to be treated as civil servants for the purpose of receiving superannuation.