Appointments
20.1 Vacant appointments will be advertised in the monthly turn report. All applications for an appointment must reach the press before the announcements deadline if it is to go ahead. If no PC applicants are successful, an NPC appointer will fill the post with another NPC wherever possible. A PC may choose to leave an appointment vacant for a maximum of one additional month before it must be filled if possible.
20.11 Vacancies will not be competed for if they are due to be filled the following month anyway according to the calendar; they are instead left vacant for this additional month. An appointment can not be made if the position that appoints it is vacant.
20.2 Only one military or civil appointment may be held at any time except for Fencing School Instructors, who can have a second appointment (not another school though). It is not necessary to resign from an appointment before applying for another. One may not appoint themselves to a position they normally appoint. Having resigned, one can not re-apply for their old post within 3 months. Similarly, if an application fails, at least 3 months must pass before another attempt at the same job can be made, unless the appointment has since expired (see below) or been filled and then vacated in the mean time.
20.3 The Calendar table shows when each appointment expires in the year. The Appointment tables show the requirements for the position, number available, die roll needed, who appoints it, and benefits associated. An applicant's MA affects the die roll for some military appointments, SL affects all appointments. If the appointer is an NPC, he can be influenced over accepting/rejecting particular applicants. Annex A gives additional notes for individual appointments. An unmodified roll of 1 always results in a failed application. Otherwise, the appointment goes to the applicant with the highest modified roll, unless the appointer is a PC in which case he simply chooses who to appoint, though the minimum requirements for the post must still be met.
20.4 If the holder of an appointment fails to maintain the requirements of the post (such as rank, SL, etc) he loses it. At the end of the Summer campaign the new army structure comes into effect. Consequently, appointments in a unit which ceases to exist in the new structure will be lost at that time, rather than in the month shown in the calendar.
20.41 Note that military appointments require an exact rank, while civil appointments require a minimum rank or minimum title. In general, an appointment will be lost if the holder gets promoted beyond the rank required, with the exception of aides to general officers who can remain in their post. Military appointments are open to holders of brevet rank, while civil appointments require the full rank given in the appointment tables as a minimum.
20.5 The appointer of a particular post may not sack the holder, although he could influence him to resign (if an NPC), as could anyone. Resigning from an important appointment at a sensitive time may lead to a Court Martial (e.g. if an army commander resigns the month before, say, the Summer campaign begins), although this could be avoided by resigning from the military totally (see Justice).
20.6 Certain appointments are considered to be 'full-time' and will be lost if the holder takes an extended absence by going to the front or joining a foreign expedition. Such posts include Ministers (though not the CPS), Provincial Governors and the City Governor, and the Adjutant General. Such posts are lost as soon as the holder commits himself to an absence rather than on his return. Therefore, one who is out of London may not apply for one of these 'full-time' appointments. All Naval appointments are considered 'full-time'. Therefore, any applying for a Naval appointment must be either on half-pay or resign their berth. Successful acceptance to a naval appointment also negates the half-pay designation.
Appointment Notes (Appendix A) Appointment Tables