Day School Allowance
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In paragraph 253 of their Report, the Salaries Commission recommended that some assistance should be given to officers whose children are educated outside Hong Kong but who attend a school as day pupils. They recommended that an allowance should be paid at the rate which applies under the It has been decided that a day Overseas Service Aid Scheme.
The
school allowance should be paid only where children are attending day schools and the mother is not there to look after them. day school allowance payable under the Overseas Service Aid Scheme is currently £80 per annum for the United Kingdom and £58 per annum for India and Pakistan.
Date of Implementation
18.
The revised rates of allowances will take effect from
The the school term commencing next after 1st April 1971. extension of eligibility to local officers will take effect from the school term commencing in September 1972.
19.
The implementation of these decisions will place a further burden on the Treasury, which is already under severe pressure, and it will be some time before this, and the paymont of any arrears, can be dealt with.
To Heads of Departments
c.c. Registrar, Supreme Court (f.i.)
J.N. Henderson Establishment Secretary