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In this Act unless the context otherwise requires,

"approved establishment" includes an establishment in existence by virtue of an enactment or establishment approved by the Government and an approved employment;

"appropriate or competent authority" means the person or organisation designed to take a final decision under this Act on an issue or in relation to a civil servant;

"bureaucratic head" includes the chief director in the Ministry, head of department and secretariat at the national level, the regional co-ordinating director and the district co-ordinating director;

"category" means a group of grades of the same level and sufficiently similar in responsibilities, degree or supervision exercised or received, experience or skill and any other attributes as that make them equal in status;

"class" means a cluster of grades in the same discipline or specialization the members of which relate to common scheme of service;

"Council" means the Civil Service Council established under section 35;

"District Assembly" include Metropolitan Assembly and Municipal Assembly;

"functional structure" means the pattern of job-sharing within the organization;

"functions" include powers and duties;

"Government" means as authority by which the executive authority of Ghana is exercised;

"grade" means a series of posts with the same title and salary or salary scale;

"organizational structure" means the pattern of relationship between the various institutions within the Service;

"political head" includes the sector head of the Ministry, and the Minister;

"posting" means being shifted from one's post in one Ministry or department to the same post in the same class in another Ministry or department or being moved on promotion to the next higher grade in the same class in another Ministry or department;

"prescribed" means prescribed by the Regulations to give effect to this Act or prescribed by administrative instructions issued under this Act;

"previous seniority", in relation to a civil servant, includes the seniority immediately before that servant entered the current post, persons who entered their current posts by recruitment being treated as having no previous seniority except as between two or more of these persons, and previous seniority shall be assessed according to age;

"region" means a region of Ghana;

"Regulation" means the Regulations made under section 91, or under any other section of this Act;

"salary conditions" means the salary attached to the post, or where a salary scale is attached to the post, means the higher point on the scale;

"secondment" means movement of a civil servant from the Civil Service to an approved establishment outside the Civil Service;

"seniority data" in relation to a civil servant, means the data on which that servant entered the current post or, if that servant has suffered loss of seniority while holding that post, means the date on which that servant is deemed to have entered the post;

"transfer" means moving from a civil service post to another post in an approved employment outside the Civil Service or moving from a departmental post to an analogous post in another department within the Service;

"vacancy" includes a prospective vacancy.