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loan-advances in lieu of pensions (and equivalent to their
full sterling value), as the successor government has
defaulted or as the circumstances of British withdrawal
precluded the negotiation of normal arrangements.
3.
In addition UK pensions legislation provides that all HMOCS pensioners are entitled to certain UK pension supplements (Supplementary Pension for Overseas Service: SPOS) to help match UK retail price inflation. This additional safeguard applies to HMOCS pensioners of the
present Dependent Territories as well as to pensioners of former Dependent Territories.
NOTE: Four other territories have become independent since
1954: HMOCS officers did not serve in the Maldives, Sudan,
(Anglo-Egyptian condominium) or Zimbabwe (formerly
(Southern) Rhodesia), and we understand that any HMOCS
officers who served in Tonga (British-protected state) did
so on secondment from other territories.
Hong Kong Department
21 April 1992
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