10. — Date of Application of Arrangement.

The foregoing arrangements, unless otherwise provided, to be considered as having come into operation on and from 1st August, 1919, and any increased payments due under this Agreement, including any arrears accruing since that date, to be made on or before March 1st, 1920.

No man dealt with under this Scheme shall, at the date the new scales come into force, viz., March 1st, 1920, receive less thin his existing salary or wages plus War Bonus.

11. — Procedure for Dealing With Applications for Revision of Classification, Commuted Allowance; &c.

(a) Men who feel that their classification is not satisfactory shall make application in writing to their Superior Officers, for their case to be re-considered, setting out the grounds on which they base their claim.

(b) Such application, with a full report upon the facts, to be sent to the General Manager of the Railway concerned through the usual channel.

(c) A Committee of Departmental Officers to be set up on each Railway for dealing with all applications and reporting thereon to the General Manager, who shall, in due course, give his decision in writing, and a copy of his decision, with reason, if declined, shall be given to the applicant.

(d) If so desired, applicants for revision of classification may attend the meeting of the local Railway Committee at which their applications are to be considered, and may also be accompanied in each case by an advocate, who shall be a man of either of the above grades, or a representative of the man’s Trade Union.

12. — Interpretation.

Any question of interpretation of this Agreement shall be referred for decision to the Committee who negotiated this Agreement, namely, the Committee of the General Managers, acting on behalf of the Ministry of Transport, the Committee of the Railway Clerks’ Association, and the Committee of the National Union of Railwaymen.