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Pensions
4. The maximum pension for any Governor is limited by Section 3 of the Governors' Pensions Act 1957, Sub-section (1) of which has been amended, under the provisions of Sub-section (3), by Statutory Instrument No. 1217 of 1964.
The provisions of these two, read together, are that a Governor's maximum pension shall be two-thirds of the yearly amount of the highest salary he has ever received or £5,100, whichever
is the less. We have now reached in respect
of Hong Kong the anomalous position in which
the Colonial Secretary could, if he reached his
maximum entitlement, retire on a pension of £5,800 per annum, which is the substantial
no less thann
sum of £700 per annum more than his Governor
earned and be drawing could possibly draw. The eldfashioned mystiquem ш a pension of ne-lees
than £5,760.
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the maximum
from which this [figure of £5,100 was computed was based on allowing a Governor not more than
two-thirds of the salary of a Permanent Secretary
in the Home Civil Service. The habit has also
Statutory
grown up latterly of not publishing statu Instruments to amend the Governors' Pensions Act 1957 except when a Governor dies or retires. On this basis, the salary of a run-of-the-mill Permanent Secretary in the Home Civil Service having gone up to £8,600, it would be normal practice to expect that you would be automatically ready at the appropriate time to publish a
Statutory Instrument raising the figure of £5,100
to £5,733. This would, however, not quite get
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