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2. As Zimbabwe (or Southern Rhodesia as it was called) became a self-governing territory in 1923, the Government of Zimbabwe were responsible for the recruitment and terms and conditions of officers in their public service. It was not therefore the Secretary of State for Colonies who was responsible for the public service, as in the case of Kenya, for example. A POA was therefore not drawn up for Zimbabwe. But HMG persuaded Mugabe to include in Zimbabwe's constitution that all public service pensions could be paid outside the country. There was no sterling safeguard (unlike in Zambia, Kenya etc), as there was no obligation on the Secretary of State.
Vanuatu
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HMG took over the payment of pensions in the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, formerly the Anglo-French Condominium of the New Hebrides, at or shortly before independence in 1971977. HMG made the agreement with the Government of the Solomon Islands, but the New Hebrides were part of it. A POA was not therefore necessary.
This is similar to the cases of Belize and Kiribati where HMG took over payment of HMOCS pensions immediately upon independence. Mr McDonald likened the case of Vanuatu to that of Sudan, which with Egypt also formed an Anglo-French Condominium. In 1962 the FCO considered that the British people who had served in Sudan, although not colonial civil servants or members of HMOCS, were nevertheless expatriates and had similar terms and conditions of service. So it was decided that they should be brought within the scope of the UK Pensions Increase Acts.
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Mr McDonald does not know why HMG does not have responsibility for the payment of pensions in Tonga, Tuvalu
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