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as the successor government has
rcumstances of British withdrawal
on of normal arrangements.
:. In addition UK pensions legislation provides that all
MOCS 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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