Business Appointment Rules. The secondee will be subject to the Business Appointment Rules (attached below).This means that the secondee may in some circumstances be required to seek the agreement of the Client or the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments before accepting any new post, and may also be required to report any approaches by outside employers offering employment for which approval may be required.
Business Appointment Rules. The secondee will be subject to the Business Appointment Rules (attached as Annex G to the APA’s Conflicts of Interest Policy). This means that the secondee may in some circumstances be required to seek the agreement of HMT or the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments before accepting any new post, and may also be required to report any approaches by outside employers offering employment for which approval may be required.
Business Appointment Rules. Within two years of leaving Crown employment, and in the circumstances set out in the following paragraph, civil servants must obtain Government approval before taking any form of full, part-time or fee-paid employment: in the United Kingdom; or overseas in a public or private company or in the service of a foreign government or its agencies. Applications for approval must be made by civil servants: • if they are in the Senior Civil Service in salary band 4 or above or in a post attracting a minimum JESP score of 13; or if they are specialists or Special Advisers of equivalent standing; or • if they have had any official dealings with their prospective employer during the last two years of Crown employment; or if they have had official dealings of a continued or repeated nature with their prospective employer at any time during their period of Crown employment; or • if they have had access to commercially sensitive information of competitors of their prospective employer in the course of their official duties; or • if their official duties during the last two years of Crown employment have involved advice or decisions benefiting their prospective employer, for which the offer of employment could be interpreted as reward, or have involved developing policy, knowledge of which might be of benefit to the prospective employer; or • if they are to be employed on a consultancy basis (either for a firm of consultants or as an independent or self employed consultant ) and they have had any dealings of a commercial nature with outside bodies or organisations in their last two years of Crown employment. The rules do not apply to: • unpaid appointments in non-commercial organisations; or • appointments in the gift of Ministers; or In the case of part-time staff, appointments held with the Treasury's agreement whilst they were civil servants. Approval is required for: • the initial appointment; and • any further appointment within two years of leaving Crown employment. Staff on secondment from the Civil Service to other organisations are subject to the rules in the same way as other civil servants. Staff on secondment to the Civil Service from other organisations are also subject to the rules in the same way as civil servants unless they return to their seconding organisation at the end of their secondment and remain there for two years. Special Advisers are subject to the rules in the same way as other civil servants unless they are offered a post by the same employe...
Business Appointment Rules. 15.1. If the Secondee does not return to the Employer at the end of the secondment, but wishes to take up employment with another organisation, the Secondee is expected to inform the ICO of their new position before entering into any written commitment with a new organisation. The ICO reserves the right to impose restrictions as set out in the Business Appointment Rules which will be provided to the Secondee.
