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28. The exclusion of local citizens has been a feature of POA policy only in the later years and the provisions of the Agreements in this respect are haphazard. Only the Swaz nd and Mauritius Agreements exclude all local citizens. The Tanganyika and Kenya Agreements exclude designated officers who became citizens whereas the Botswana Lesotho and Zanzibar Agreements exclude non-designated officers who are Tocal citizens. The Regional Nigerian Agreements and the Somali and Sierra Leone Agreements exclude all locally domiciled. The other Agreements have no citizenship
or domicile restrictions.
29.
An additional complication is that the Pensions Increase Acts do not prohibit "overseas officers" from receiving pension supplements if they become local citizens and it is known that supplements are in fact payable to some but probably miniscule proportion who are local citizens.
! 30. Be that as it may there is nothing to suggest that the oversea governments would
not accept the principle that they should continue to be responsible for local citizens covered by the POA's as indeed those Agreements so require. There should also be no point of principle why HMG should not exclude local citizens from its new field of financial responsibility. Moreover if such a course were adopted, HMG could and should exclude local citizens from its pension supplement field: those already in receipt of a supplement would not have it withdrawn but no further increase would be given.
CONCLUSION
31.
The field of HMG's proposed new financial responsibility must be confined to:-
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those pensioners who are covered by a POA or, if no POA has been concluded (eg Federal Nigeria) who would in the opinion of the Minister be covered by an Agreement provided that they are not citizens of the oversea country;
those pensions of the pensioner which are attributable to "Crown" service or otherwise approved (to cover Sudan and the "HMOCS" inter-territorial organisations eg WACRI).
32. This field would include the "expatriate" Asians of Kenya, Uganda and Zanzibar and the Southern Yemen non-British expatriates but would not admit the Asians of EAC or Tanganyika or the quasi-governmental pensioners everywhere. The cost of the Kenyan Asians is put at £ Kenya 579,963 per annum by the Kenyan Government: this is thought to be on the high side. The cost of the Kenya and Uganda Asians is expected to be less than £1 million whereas the total cost of all the E African Asians would have been nearer £2 million,
Pensions Branch
Ministry of Overseas Development
October, 1969.
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