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3. Normal retirement benefits (ie retired pay/pension and terminal
grant) will be paid to those made redundant, subject to two
extensions of the rules:
4.
(a) The normal minimum length of service required to qualify for immediate retired pay/pension (16 years' reckonable service from age 21 for officers, 22 years from age 18 for servicemen)
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reduced to
be
10 years' qualifying service; those who have given at least
10 years' qualifying service, but less than 16 (or 22), will
receive immediate retired pay/pension and terminal grant
proportionate to the service they have actually given.
(b)
For officers the normal requirement of 2 years' service
in the substantive rank will be waived, and for servicemen
account may be taken of any paid rank held earlier if this
was higher than the substantive rank held at the date of
discharge.
Those who have given less than 10 years' qualifying service
at the time of redundancy will not qualify for immediate retired pay/
pension; they will however receive a Special Capital Payment
equivalent to 2 months' military salary for each year of qualifying
service, together with any other terminal benefits to which the
service they have given would normally entitle them.
5. The terms set out above apply to the categories described in
paragraph 2. Special arrangements will apply to certain categories
of officers and other ranks serving on commissions or engagements which do not qualify for immediate pension._7
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