The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 65
23. Charges against Civil Officers
23. Charges against Civil Officers.
Any officer against whom an accusation is made under the 26th section of "The Civil Service Act, 1866," may be suspended by the permanent head of the department, or by any Minister, or by the officer in charge of the office in which the accused serves. When any complaint is' made against any officer under the 26th section of the Civil Service Act timely notice of such complaint, and a copy of the document reporting it, shall be given him, in order that the complaint and any explanation offered by the accused may be laid simultaneously before the Board of Inquiry.