Amendment to the Staff Regulations of the United Nations (Regulation 3.2)

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Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1956.

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3 topics

Children's Allowance Education Grant Rules and Regulations

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2 operative paragraphs

Adopts as an amendment to the Staff Regulations of the United Nations the text contained in the annex to the present resolution, which amendment shall become effective on 1 January 1956;

Requests the Secretary-General to establish the conditions for the administration of the education grants,

28 Ibid., Tentli Session, Annexes, agenda item 56, document A/2996.

29 Ibid., document A/3036.

8-olatlom aulopled on 11ae.....-of dae llflla 1::a on the basis of the pertinent sections of bis above-men· tioned rèport and taking into consideration the SUIJeStions made durinJ the debate on personnel questions in the Fifth Cornri11ttee at the tenth session of the General Assembly, to the extent that these suggestions fall within the general principles set forth in the new text of staff regulation 3.2.

15 Deceinbw 1955.

ANNEX Staff r,g,,lalion 3.2 (amended text)

The Secretary-General shall establish a scheme for the payment of children's allowances under the conditions specified in annex IV, paragraph 1, to the present regulations.

The Seci-etary-Gcneral ■hall also e5tablish terms and conditions under which an education grant shall be available to a staff member serving outside bis recognized home country, · whose dependent child under the age of twenty-one is in fulltime attendance at a school, university, or similar educational institution of a type which wil~ in the opinion of the Secretary- Gcneral, facilitate the child's re-assimilation in the staff member's recognized home countrY, ·The maximum amount of the grant shall be $400 per annum for a child. Travel costs of the child may also be paid for an outward and r~um journey once in each scholastic year between the educational institution and the duty station, by a route approved by the Secretary-General, but not in an amount exceeding the cost of such a joumey between the home countrY and the duty station.

The SecretarY•General shall also establish terms and conditions under which an education grant shall be available to a staff member serving in a countrY whose language is different from his own and who is obliged to pay tuition for the teachinr of · the mother tongue to a dependent child attending a local school in which the instruction js given in a language other than his own.

The SecretarY•General may decide in each case whether the children's allowance or the educational grant shall extend to·

adopted children or stepchildren.

(ln ann,x IV, cancel paragraphs 2 and 3 and renvmbw parogroph 4 as paragrap.h 2.)

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