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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.
It would appear that a form of pension
arrangements based on the special West Indies model
might be considered appropriate to the circumstances
in Hong Kong and insofar as it would provide the
more beneficial arrangements to all judges in the
Colony and not only those who might be appointed
from the local Bar, there would be no difficulty
as between one judge and another. It would be
for consideration whether it would be appropriate
to go so far as to provide the more generous
constant for judges as opposed to the public
service in general as was done in the West Indies.
A revised scheme, based on the West Indies
model but maintaining the one six-hundredth
constant, would enable a judge to earn half pay
pension after 15 years service, and two-thirds pay
pension after 23 years service.
Such a scheme, because of the weighting given
to pension earning in the first ten years of
service, would also take due account of the
problem which would otherwise arise in cases where
an appointment from the local Bar took place in
middle life and too late to satisfy the minimum
qualification clause of the normal pensions scheme"
As an alternative the ODA have also recommended
/"that a
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