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Leave earning rate
4.
A judicial officer who opts to transfer to 100% pensionability will have the leave earning rate adjusted with effect from the material date. The detailed arrangements are set out in Annex B(i).
Undertaking to be signed when leave is taken in excess of the 100% pensionability leave earning rate
5.
As an option to transfer to 100%
100% pensionability would entail a consequential reduction in vacation leave earning rate, a transitional arrangement for officers currently on 90% pensionability will be required. An officer on 90% pensionability who applies to take leave in excess of what he would have earned had he opted to transfer to 100% pensionability will be required to undertake to
pay to the Government a sum equivalent to the salary of any future debit leave balance accrued at the time of his departure from the service should he eventually opt to transfer to 100% pensionability (Annex B (ii) is a specimen undertaking).
Leave record for judicial officers on 90% pensionability
6.
The Judiciary will keep a record of the casual and vacation leave balance of those judicial officers on 90% pensionability showing the balance as at 1 April 1987.
Contributions to the Widows and Orphans Pension Scheme (WOPS) or the Widows' and Children's Pensions Scheme (WCPS)
7.
For a judicial officer who opts to transfer to 100% pensionability, if he is a contributor to the WOPS and has not fixed his monthly contributions at $125 or above, he will have to contribute at 4% of
of 100% (and not 90%) of his emoluments
as from the material date. If he is a WCPS contributor, the rate of his monthly contribution will have to be adjusted on the basis of 100% (and not 90%) of his emoluments as from the material date.
(0016P : 14-15)