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Article 15. Article 74 of the Law of the 3rd Tir, 1309 (24th June 1930),
concerning the speeding up of legal procedure which was amended hy the
Law of the 25th Aban 1310, is amended as follows with effect from the ^
1st Farvardin, 1317 (21st March 1938) :
In addition to the fixed salaries which are paid to them, executive
officials will receive a proportion of the executive fees* (haq-ul-ijra) in the
follow ing manner and in accordance with Regulations which wdll be drawn up
by the Ministry of Justice :
1. Up to Rials 5,000 executive fees : 5 per cent.
2. From Rials 5,001 up to Rials 50,000 executive fees : 3 per cent, on the
excess over Rials 5,001.
3. On any excess over Rials 50,000 : 2 per cent.
The receipts from executive fees of Registry Offices and Courts will, after
payment of the shares of the executive officials as^ above, be reckoned as
general revenues and handed over to the Treasury.
Article 16 ,—The Ministry of Industry and Mines is authorised to pay,
from the beginning of the year 1317, to all employees who are performing the
duties of a position carrying a higher salary or rank than their own, an acting
allowance (haq-ul-Kcfaleh) equal to one half of the salary of the personal grade
of the ] er ;on officiating plus one half of the salary of the position in which he
officiates.
Note. The payment of acting allowances to employees of the Ministry of Industry and other
Ministries, who are receiving acting allowances or the actual salaries of the positions which they
occupy, in accordance with various laws, will be subject to the approval of the Council of
Ministers.
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Article 17 .—The question of whether it is necessary or not to publish
calls for tenders abroad, which is the subject of the last part of the Koto to
Article 39 of the Law’ of General Accounts (Qanun-i-Muhasibat-i-Umumi)
will be left to the descretion of the Ministries concerned subject to the consent
of the Ministry of Finance.
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Copies to India No. 79. ,
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Letter from His Majesty’s Minister, Tehran, to the Foreign Office
London, No. 161, dated the 22nd April 1938.
I have the honour to report that on the 13th April, the Journal de
Teheran contained an inconspicuous announcement that on the previous day
Monsieur Ala had vacated his post of Minister of Commerce, to which he had
been appointed on the creation of that Ministry in October last, as reported in
Mr. Seymour’s despatch No. 379 of the 7th October.
2. Little definite is known of the reasons which led to Monsieur Ala
leaving the Ministry of Commerce. In this country it is virtually impossible
to resign, an'd it seems certain that Monsieur Ala must have earned the Shah’s
disfavour. It is generally known that Monsieur Ala w T as opposed to the
extreme monopolistic tendencies of the Government, and wished to abolish the
monopoly companies, or to limit their scope. The leading directors of these
companies are men of wealth and influence, many of them deputies, w r ho have
made large profits out of the monopolies, and w r ho would have little difficult
in showing that profits had also been made by the Ministry of Finance and the
Government Banks. It w T ould therefore be easy for them to represent that.
Monsieur Ala’s views stood in the w T ay of the economic progress of the country.
Further, Monsieur Ala was said to be on bad terms w ith Monsieur Bader, the
Minister of Finance, and also with his Under-Secretary, Monsieur Vassighi,
*Haq-ul-ijra is the fee charged by the department of the Ministry of Justice wdiich collecta-
debts and all money payments ordered by the Courts.