Article 46 F1
An official appointed to a higher grade in accordance with Article 45 shall be placed in the initial step in that grade. However, officials in grades AD 9 to AD 13 carrying out the duties of head of unit who are appointed to a higher grade in accordance with Article 45 shall be placed in the second step of the new grade. The same arrangement shall apply to any official:
- (a)
who upon promotion is appointed director or director-general, or
- (b)
who is director or director-general and to whom the last sentence of the second paragraph of Article 44 applies.