24. INCREMENTAL PROGRESSION

b. Increments may be accelerated within an employee's scale subject to the maximum of the scale not being exceeded at the discretion of the Director of School/Service after consultation with the Director of Personnel.

c. An increment may be withheld following an adverse report on the employee. Any increment withheld may be paid subsequently if the employee's services became satisfactory.

d. Employees with less than six month's service by 1st April shall be granted their first increment six months after their appointment, promotion or regrading except where their salary on 1st April following appointment, promotion or regrading would be less than one spinal column point in excess of the salary they would have received on that day in their old grade, when they shall be entitled to their first increment on 1st April.

e. Any automatic advancement, relating to age payable within the salary scale, shall not interrupt payment of normal increments on the 1st April.