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wait on that cats. We could require provissimul apphites & be mode de por for
admini 15 HMOCS defendunt an admin to the pensiivée esulted int January 1993. I therefore recommend that we set off January 1993 as the date by which all officers must have submitted their applications) for HMOCS membership.
provival applications
TIME GRANTED TO BUY BÁCK SERVICE
9.
If Ministers agree the above we also
need to consider whether any time limit should be set by which officers in this position must have bought back their service. The HKG policy is:
Officers switching to pensionable service post
26 July 1991 have 12 months in which to buy back service. Pre 26 July 1991 there is no deadline-they may buy back service at any time up to retirement.
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We do not want to/unable to quantify the costs over a long period. But we also do not want to make it financially so onerous that in practice officers can not buy back service. I therefore recommend that we allow 12 months from the date that the officer becomes pensionable or 12 months from 31 March 1993 for officers who transferred before 26 July 1991 to buy back service. (We need to give officers who transferred before 26 July 1991 some time to buy back. They may not have done anything yet, given that they think that they have years in which to do it.)
11.
DEADLINE FOR TRANSFER TO PENSIONABLE TERMS
One final wrinkle. HK may and does allow contract officers
with a substantial amount of their contract still to run to become pensionable. The officer himself has the choice of transferring either when he is found medically fit or a current date after but before the expiry of his
` contract. In practice, since contracts are normally 2 and a
half years, this means there may be a long time to run before the officer actually becomes pensionable.
12. If we allow officers to buy back service, the problem identified in para 11 above arguably gives such officers the best of both worlds: they can go on earning gratuities which they can then put towards their pension/compensation if things look favourable in that direction. I therefore recommend that we inform this category that whatever HKGS policy may be, if they want to benefit from any scheme HMG promulgates, they should transfer to pensionable terms with effect from 31 March 1993.
These are all the loose ends we can think of at present but at the rate things are going, there will be
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