Explanatory Notes

1. The entries in the above table, which are in alphabetical order in each article, apply exclusively to the persons entered therein, and while regulating their relative precedence with each other accordingly to the number of the article, do not give them any precedence over member of the non-official community resident in Pakistan, who shall take their place according to usage.
2. Officers in the above table will take precedence in order of the numbers of entries. Those included in one number will take precedence inter-se according to date of entry into the number. When two or more officers enter an article on the same, their inter-se seniority will be fixed on the basis of length of class 1 service. Officers of the defense service will rank inter-se in accordance with their seniority.
3. When an officer holds more than one position in the table he will be entitled to the highest position accorded to him.
4. An officer on entering an article, by virtue of a change in his office to an article lower than that which was occupied by him immediately preceding this change, will take his seniority in the lower article with effect from the date of his entry into the higher article: provided that if he re-enters a lower article in which he was included earlier, he will take his seniority in that lower article from the original date of his entry into it.
5. All officers not mentioned in the above table whose rank is regulated by comparison with rank in the army, will have the same rank with reference to civil servants as is enjoyed by military officers of equal grades, but officers of defense force will have precedence over all others in respective articles.
6. All persons not mentioned in the above table, who hold an ex-officio rank, will be placed in the same article as persons holding that rank.
7. All ladies, unless by virtue of holding an appointment themselves, they are entitled to a higher position in the table, will take place according to the rank herein assigned to their husbands.
8. The inter-se seniority of the gun-salute rulers will be determined on the basis of the gun-salute admissible to each ruler. In case two or more rulers having equal number of gun-salute, their inter-se seniority will be determined with reference to the date of accession to the ‘gaddi’. In the case of other rulers, who are not entitled to gun-salute, their inter-se seniority will be determined on the basis of accession to the gaddi. (no longer applicable now).
9. All other persons who may not be determined in this table will take rank according to general usage, which is to be explained and determined by the president in case any question shall arise.
10. Retired civil and military officers will be placed at the end of the articles in which they were included immediately before their retirement.
11. Seniority of the officers will be determined with reference to the holding appointment mentioned in the article, irrespective of the grades which they possess.