📜 Official Text

(1) A civil servant can only be dismissed/removed by an authority at least as senior as the one that appointed them. (2) They cannot be dismissed/removed/reduced in rank without a proper inquiry where they're informed of the charges and given a reasonable opportunity to be heard - except where they've already been convicted on a criminal charge, where holding an inquiry isn't reasonably practicable (recorded in writing), or where the President/Governor decides an inquiry isn't expedient for state security reasons. (3) The dismissing authority's own decision on whether an inquiry was practicable is final.