RESTRICTED
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C pensions and eat alent to their
Full ster a value), as the successor government mas
defaulted or as the circumstances of British withdrawai
precluded the negotiation 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:
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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