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PAUL FIFOOT

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(b) with such other information as will enable the Secretary of State to determine the amount of any supplementary payment.

No supplementary payment will be made under this Scheme except in respect of a registered notional Hong Kong pension or a registered notional Hong Kong gratuity, and the Secretary of State may withhold any supplementary payment unless he is satisfied that he has been correctly informed of all pertinent information as regards a pension or gratuity and the payments made under the law of Hong Kong in respect of the pension or gratuity.

OVERPAYMENTS

10. -(1) In any case where an increase to a pension under the law of Hong Kong which may be taken into account in determining any supplementary payment payable under this Scheme is granted or revised with retrospective effect, such supplementary payment will be revised accordingly with similar effect and any overpayment to the pensioner as a result may be recovered from him by deduction from any supplementary payments subsequently payable or otherwise.

(2) Where any overpayment has not been recovered within one month of notification, no further supplementary payments will be made to the pensioner until the amount of the overpayment has been recovered.

SECRETARY OF STATE TO DECIDE ALL QUESTIONS OF INTERPRETATION OF THE SCHEME

11. Any question relating to the interpretation of this Scheme, including any question as to who is a member of HMOCS within the meaning of this Scheme and what shall be deemed to be the salary point and grade as at 1st January 1992 of a grade cstablished or existing before or after that date, shall be determined by the Secretary of Statc.

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