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8. Unfortunately none of the established criteria is sufficient in itself for the pur es of defining the oversea pensioner whose pension should be taken over by the Brith Government if it is desired to exclude the local citizens and the East African Asians. HMCCS embraces indigenous as well as expatriate officers. OSAS designated officers include "British stock" East Africans but do not embrace all those for whom the British Government has already in fact entered into some obligation through the POA's pensions supplements or loan advances on default on pensions by oversea governments. POA definitions are inadequate because Asians in Kenya, Uganda and Zanzibar and the non-indigenous/non-designated in Aden could not be excluded and the Agreements do not in every case exclude local citizens. The British pensions supplement "overseas officer" definition would exclude the Asians but it also excludes the "British stock" East African pensioners covered by HMOCS, OSAS and POA's who we would like to admit to benefit to supplements and to the field of HMG responsibility. Combinations of these definitions complicate the issue and do not eradicate the obstacles to the hoped for goal.
9. Prima facie the adoption of the pensions supplement definition of overseas officer produces the only way in which the East African Asians could be generally (but not entirely) excluded but it could only be adopted at the price of excluding the "British stock" East African pensioners who number about 500;
EXPRESSIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY BY HMG
10. HMG has made a variety of public announcements about its special responsibility towards expatriate officers and their pensions. The most significant of these are as follows.
COLONIAL NO.306 "REORGANISATION OF THE COLONIAL SERVICE"
11. The key passages of the White Paper Colonial No 306 are to be found in paragraphs 6, 7 and 12
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"6. Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom recognise that they have
a special obligation towards those officers of the Colonial Service who hold their present posts as a result of having been selected for them by the Secretary of State.
(2) The pensions and other benefits for which they or their dependents may be qualified under existing laws and regulations shall be similarly safeguarded".
"7. Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom accordingly make known
their intention, if and when a territory attains self-government, to ensure the observance of these conditions by securing their embodiment in a formal agreement, to be entered into between Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and the government of the territory. The agreement will also provide for the continuing payment of pensions already awarded to officers and their dependents",
"12. Her Majesty's Government recognise that there are certain other categories
of overseas pensionable officers who have been appointed to the service of territorial governments otherwise than by selection by the Secretary of State. These officers may be assured that their interests will not be overlooked when the agreements referred to in paragraph 7 are being negotiated".
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