Civil Service Personnel Rule 59

59. If a service personnel is reduced to a lower pay scale within the current time scale pay the followings should be specified precisely:
(a) the period of reduction to a lower pay scale;
(b) whether or not the period of reduction to a lower pay scale will postpone future increments when a civil service personnel is being raised to the original pay;
(c) the period of postponing the future increments if it postpones so.