INTRODUCTION
Application
01001 **– **It shall be the duty of every officer to acquaint himself with the Public Service Rules, other regulations and extant circulars. These Public Service Rules apply to all officers except where they conflict with specific terms approved by the State Government and written into the contract of employment or letter of appointment in so far as the holders of the offices of :-
The Governor;
The Deputy Governor;
Chief Judge of the State;
Judges of the State High Court;
Magistrate of State Magistrate Court;
President and Judges of the Customary Court of Appeal;
The Chairman and members of the following executive bodies namely: -
The State Civil Service Commission
The State Judicial Service Committee
The State Independent Electoral Commission
The Local Govt. Service Commission
The Secondary Education Management Board
The State Primary Education Board
The Health Management Board
The Auditor-General of the State
and any other similar organs that derive their appointments from the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria are concerned. These Rules apply only to the extent that they are not inconsistent with the provisions of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in so far as their conditions of service and any other law applicable to these officers are concerned.
Special definition
01002 – The special meanings with which various words and terms are used for the purpose of particular chapters and sections in these Public Service Rules are quoted at the beginning of such chapters or
sections.
General definition
01003 – Except where otherwise indicated by the context or in special definitions for particular chapters the following words and terms are used with the following meanings wherever they occur in these Public Service Rules:-
Basic Salary includes any contract addition given to contract officers but excludes, for all staff, any inducement addition or other form of allowances.
Child (of a Public Servant) means a child who:-
a) is under the age of 18 years; and
b)(i) is the officer's biological off-spring;
(ii) or the officer's step-child being the biological off-spring of a spouse of the officer; or
(iii) a child adopted by the officer in accordance with any statutory provision; and
c) is entirely dependent on the officer.
A child is not normally dependent on a female officer unless the father of the child is dead or she is divorced from him and has been awarded legal custody of the child without a maintenance order or she is a single parent.
Civil Service is a body or organ which enjoys continuity of exercise.
Essentially, Departments it covers Ministries and Extra-Ministerial Departments
Classified Correspondence means Correspondence which has been graded Restricted, Confidential, Staff Confidential, Secret or Top Established Post means a post provided for under the personal
emoluments sub-head of the estimates.
Gazette means the Abia State of Nigeria Official Gazette.
General Executive Cadre: comprises officers holding post of
Chief Executive Officer, GL. 14
Assistant Chief Executive Officer, GL. 13
Principal Executive Officer 1, GL. 12
Principal Executive Officer II, GL. 10
Senior Executive Officer, GL. 09
Higher Executive Officer, GL. 08
Executive Officer, GL. 07
Assistant Executive Officer, GL. 06
It also includes officers holding corresponding "Accounts" posts e.g Executive Officer (Accounts).
Head of Department means the Permanent Secretary/Head of Extra- Ministerial Department.
Junior Officer means a pensionable staff from GL. 01-06.
Junior Posts are posts graded on Salary Grade Level 01 - 06 in Ministries/Departments.
Ministry includes Extra-Ministerial Departments.
Monthly-rated means employment on monthly rates of pay.
Nigerian Home Place means the place in Nigeria accepted in writing by Government as the place to which a staff would naturally wish to return when spending his leave in Nigeria.
Nigerian Officer means an Officer other than an expatriate.
Officer when used without qualification means staff in an established
post", either on pensionable, non-pensionable or contract terms.
"Expatriate Officer" means a staff who is not a Nigerian.
"Public Service" is Service which ranks as such for the purpose of the Pensions Act (Cap 346).
"Secretarial Pool" is a pool of stenographic officers for posting to any Ministry or Extra-Ministerial Department as required. (It is controlled by the Permanent Secretary (Administration), Office of the Head of Service of the State.
"Senior Posts" are posts graded on Salary Grade Level 07 and above and other posts attracting fixed salaries of equivalent salary grade levels in Ministries/Extra-Ministerial Departments.
"Staff" means a person employed by the Abia State Civil Service Commission.
"Temporary Officer" means a staff employed temporarily in an established post on non-pensionable terms.
"Trainee" means a person appointed to a training post in any grade. It includes a pupil.
"Wife" (of an officer) means a woman married to him under the marriage Act or Customary law or Islamic law.
"Interdiction" when a serious case that may lead to dismissal has been instituted against an officer, the Permanent Secretary may interdict him on not more than half pay pending the determination of the case.
Suspension: when disciplinary proceeding for a criminal case has been instituted against or about to be instituted against an officer, he shall be suspended from office without salary pending determination of the case.
01004 – Nothing in these Public Service Rules shall be construed as limiting the powers of the Abia State Government to amend or revoke any of its provisions at any time.
Application of Public Service Rules to female Servants
01005 – Notwithstanding that throughout the Public Service Rules the terms 'Officer' and 'Staff are referred to in the masculine gender, the provisions of the Rules apply equally to female Public Servants.
Public Service Rules to form part of inventory items.
**01006 – **A copy of the Public Service Rules shall form part of the inventory items in each office of the Service to be handed over by a departing officer to his successor.