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Thank you for your letter of 17 June about the counting of bought-back service for pension and compensation purposes.
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There is no reference in the earlier compensation schemes to the buying back of pensionable service. We have examined a number of the schemes made in the early 1960s and each refers to HMOCS officers who were either selected for appointment, or were admitted to the pensionable establishment, before the operative date. Thus, if contract officers were given the opportunity to transfer to the pensionable establishment, and by doing so were allowed to buy back their earlier service, the additional years would count towards any compensatory payment.
All of the schemes (both General as well as Limited) allowed reckonable service to count for compensation to the same extent that it was recognised for the purpose of calculating an officer's retirement benefits. Furthermore, the compensatory payment was based on the total length of an Officer's Colonial Service Career, and not just the number of years he had served in the territory from which he was retiring. For these reasons, I do not see how we can possibly restrict the calculation of a former contract officer's compensation to the time when he joined the permanent establishment if he has bought back earlier service which would count towards his pension. my view the crucial point is whether contract officers are allowed to join the permanent establishment in the first place.
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Similarly, the PCSPS compensation arrangements are based on reckonable pensionable service. If a UK Civil Servant had bought added years, or was in the process of buying added years, his compensation would be based on his total reckonable service, bought or otherwise, at the time he left the service.
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