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CIRCULAR NO, 2/91
iransfer of Agreement Officers
to the Permanent Establishment
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Annex A
Mon 30 August 1951
This circular announces a new criterion to be adopted in considering applications from agreement officers for transfer to the permanent establishment and a time limit for them to exercise the option to augment their pensionable service.
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Officers employed on agreement terms may apply for transfer to the permanent establishment. Upon approval of their applications, the officers may exercise their option to augment their pensionable service by repaying Government the contract gretuities they have received, plus interest, in respect of their previous 2 ̧reement cervice. faic will have the effect that their pensionable service can be treated as having commenced on the date the agreement service started.
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As a result of a recent audit review on the arrangements for transfer to the permanent establishment, the following additional criterion has been agreed with the Director of Audit to take with effect from 1 January 1992. An application will only be consicered 1f, after the effective date of transfer (the earliest effective date being the date he passes the medical examination), the officer will have a minimum of five years of service before he retires. This
five-your requirement can be relaxed to two years in the case of an officer who joined the Judiciary after the age of 50, or was appointed before I July 1967 and has attained the age of 50 at the time of application.
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A. office: will bS iven a time limit of 12 months from ene date of transfer to exercise is option to augment is pensionaule selvice through refund of contract gratuitios plus interest, The option must we accompanibu wy poŝund of the contract gratuitlos, which can be made by one of the following methoɑs
(2)
(11)
(iii)
(iv)
one lap sum payment;
equal monthly instalments involving monthly deductions Fließ at 25% of the officer's salary as at the date of commencement of such deductions;
repayment of a substantial amount initially, followed by method (ii) วง the belance outstanding,
for officsso we are 53 years of age or above, one lump sum payment not later than 10 days before they commence caking pre-retirement leave. However, if an officer chooses this method of repayment but unfortunately passes away Derors repayment, he is not considered to have aucmented his
pensionable service.