The method of promotion By veeancy, up to the rank of Major, would be abolished, and in future every subaltern would become a captain in eight years, and every captain would become a major in a further nine years.
Every officer entering the Army at the normal age, therefore, would be sure of approximately ten years service in the rank of Major, if not previously promoted.
Beyond the rank of Major, promotion would be by selection, to fill the particular appointments available.
The system whereby officers waiting for appointments were put on halt pay would be abolished Tenure of command and staff appointments generally would be reduced from four years to three.
The effect of the new proposals, Mr, Here-Belisha declared, was considerably to accelerate promotion, and thereby to give increased p: at lower ages, while in the subaltern ranks, in the years before the accep loration began to operate, there would be a substantive increase in pay in the case of second lieutenants by a shilling per day, and of lieutenants by 1s. 2d. per day. ment as a consequence, and the reduction in the tenures of command and staff appointments from, four years to three would not occasion the displacement of any officer with-cut a year's warning.
In general, the measures, including the new time scale of promotion and incremental stages would apply as from the ruling date to officers of the British Army on Indian establishment, and consequential adjustments of Indian rates of pay issuable to officers on Indian establishment would be decided: shortly.
The promotion of one quarter of the subalterns and captains in the British Army in one single day, which would go into effect under the new scheme, would involve the largest gazette in the history of the Army, Mr. Here-Belisha declared.
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