Apply In-Person

1. The officer must submit a letter of resignation specifying the date on which he or she desires to leave the government service.
2. Visit the following link for Contact Details: Link.
3. Qualifying officers must also submit a pension/gratuity application to their immediate supervisor, together with supporting papers. For further information, go to the Pension/Gratuity Awards procedure page.
4. The supervisor / Human Resource department shall then send notice of the officer’s resignation to the Permanent Secretary (PS)/Head of Department.
5. The PS/Head of Department shall then notify the Permanent Secretary of the Department of Public Service of the officer's resignation.
6. After that, the Department of Public Service will accept the resignation and notify the agency.
7. The resignation will be Gazetted by the Department of Public Service.
   

Letter of resignation.

The Department of Public Service
Poinciana Hill Complex
Meeting Street
Nassau, New Providence
The Bahamas
Tel.  (242) 502-7200
Fax. (242) 326-6929
Opening hours: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, Monday to Friday, except public holidays

Contact Address Details Link
Contact Details for Family Island Link

Any public servant who works for the government.

No processing fee.

Officers shall either give one month's notice or pay one month's salary in lieu of notice.

Please attach documents that can be used by people. e.g. links

Please attach sample completed documents that would help other people.

It is processed within Four weeks.

Videos explaining the procedure or to fill the applications.
Attach videos using the following tag <&video type='website'>video ID|width|height<&/video&> from external websites.
Please remove the '&' inside the tags during implementation.
Website = allocine, blip, dailymotion, facebook, gametrailers, googlevideo, html5, metacafe, myspace, revver,
sevenload, viddler, vimeo, youku, youtube
width = 560, height = 340, Video ID = Can be obtained from the URL of webpage where the video is displayed.
e.g In the following url 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0US7oR_t3M' Video ID is 'Y0US7oR_t3M'.

Please provide other instructions related to the certificate/documents.
e.g. The state office holds birth records since january 1908.

A list which displays the kind of information which is required to complete the procedure.
e.g.
1. Date of Birth.
2. City or Country of Birth.

It is required for resignation from the public service.

Website Link

Please explain what are other uses of obtaining this document/certificate.
e.g. Birth Certificate can be used as proof of identity.

Place some external links which might help.

More information which might help people.