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Letter
To:-D ̧RT-Helmes,Esq.,6MG,OBE,MG,
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Sir Hugh Norman-Walker, Colonial Secretary,
HONG KONG.
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E.0. Laird Telephone No. & Ext.
PRIVACY MARKING
..In Confidence
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Department
Hong Kong
Please refer to the final paragraph of my letter
of 4 November to Ronnie Holmes concerning the question
of pensions for Judges appointed from the local Bar.
now
at Trace that
A We have since heard from the ODA the a form of
TYSERT pension arrangement based on the west Indian model might
be considered appropriate to the circumstances in
Hong Kong. In the West Indies, the Pension Act 1958, as
amended, provided for the public service to earn pension
on a constant of one six-hundredth and for pension to be
payable on retirement after the age of 55 or, in special
cases, with approval, after the age of 50. The Federal
Supreme Court (Salaries & Pensions) Act 1960/provided
ehhanced terms for all judges, whether elevated from the
local Bar or not, which produced pensions earned on a
constant of one four hundred & eightieth with the
qualifications that the first ten years carried double
pensionability and that pension payable as a result of
service of less than five years was limited to an amount
of one quarter of annual pensionable emoluments. Pension
was payable on retirement after the age of 60, and was
restricted to a maximum of two-thirds of the highest
pensionable emoluments drawn by the officer at any time
in the course of his public service.
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