Parliamentary power to vary service conditions permits legislative alteration of remuneration, leave, pension and disciplinary rights for legacy civil servants. Parliament may by law vary or revoke, prospectively or retrospectively, conditions of service including remuneration, leave, pension and disciplinary rights of persons appointed before the Constitution's commencement by the Secretary of State to Crown civil services who continued to serve under the Union or a State, and may vary pensions of those who ceased service earlier; limitations protect disadvantageous changes to conditions after appointment to certain high offices except insofar as those conditions stem from the prior Crown appointment.
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Parliamentary power to vary service conditions permits legislative alteration of remuneration, leave, pension and disciplinary rights for legacy civil servants.
Parliament may by law vary or revoke, prospectively or retrospectively, conditions of service including remuneration, leave, pension and disciplinary rights of persons appointed before the Constitution's commencement by the Secretary of State to Crown civil services who continued to serve under the Union or a State, and may vary pensions of those who ceased service earlier; limitations protect disadvantageous changes to conditions after appointment to certain high offices except insofar as those conditions stem from the prior Crown appointment.
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