This Act may be cited as the Civil Service Amendment Act, 1908, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Civil Service Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

Nothing in section four of the principal Act shall apply to—

The term “expert knowledge” as used in this Act means expert knowledge of any profession, trade, business, industry, or calling, or of any science or art, but does not include a knowledge of the profession or business of a clerk.

When any person is appointed under the authority of section two of this Act as a person possessing expert knowledge, the Minister having charge of the Department in which the appointment is made shall lay before Parliament, within ten days after the appointment if Parliament is then sitting, and if not, then within ten days after the commencement of the next ensuing session, a notice of the appointment, stating the name of the person so appointed, the office to which he has been appointed, and his qualification for the office.

If the Governor is of opinion that any office is of such a nature that it ought in the public interest to be exempted from the operation of section four of the principal Act, he may by Order in Council gazetted exempt that office therefrom accordingly.

Every such Order in Council shall be laid before Parliament within ten days after the making thereof if Parliament is then sitting, and if not, then within ten days after the commencement of the next ensuing session.

If within two months after any such Order in Council has been laid before Parliament a resolution disapproving of the same is passed by either House of Parliament, the Order in Council shall thereupon cease to be in force, and any appointment theretofore made under the authority thereof shall become and be deemed to have been from the making thereof a temporary appointment only.

Any Order in Council made under this section may be at any time revoked, but the revocation thereof shall not affect any appointment theretofore made under the authority thereof.

No person appointed under the authority of section two of this Act shall be qualified by reason of that appointment to be subsequently appointed to any other office.

Section four of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing subsection four and paragraph (a) of subsection three.