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(cxlvii) Recommendation that closer liaison with Malaya might be achieved by more frequent visits by senior
officers and short term secondments of specialist officers. (paragraph 177).
(cxlviii) Recommendation that high cost of living allowance should be payable on basic salary, not on total
emoluments. (paragraph 184).
(cxlix) Recommendation that different rates of high cost of living allowance should be paid to married officers with children, married officers without children and unmarried officers on basic salaries of over $149 per month. (paragraph 185).
(cl) Recommendation that officers on basic salaries of $124 per month or less should continue to draw the
rehabilitation allowance less $30 per month. (paragraph 187).
(cli) Recommendation that conversion allowance should be paid to officers on basic salaries of $124 per month or less in cases where revised pay and allowance would be less than under the present system. (para- graph 188).
(clii) Recommendation that all officers on revised basic salaries of between $125 and $149 per month should
receive a flat allowance of $60 per month. (paragraph 189).
(eliii) Recommendation for temporary standard rates of high cost of living allowance for officers on revised
salaries of $150 per month or over. (paragraph 190).
(cliv) Recommendation that revised scales should be retrospective to 1st January, 1947. (paragraph 193).
(clv) Recommendation that retrospective benefit should be confined to officers in the Service at the date on which final approval of the Commission's recommendations is announced. (paragraph 194). Recommendation that Police Officers who have accepted offer of retirement before reaching the age of
45 should be excluded from retrospective benefits." (paragraph 194).
(clvi)
(clvii) Recommendation that officers who have resigned or been discharged since Ist January, 1947, should not
benefit. (paragraph 194).
. (elviii)
Recommendation that officers who were in the Colony on duty on 1st January, 1947, and have sub. sequently died, retired in the normal course or been invalided should receive salary and pension adjust- ments. (paragraph 194).
(clix) Recommended conversion rules where the old and new scales are approximately the same length. (para-
graph 195).
(clx) Recommendation that machinery should be set up to deal with conversion in certain cases.
196).
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(clxi) Recommendation that officers appointed since the re-occupation on special terms should, if permanently appointed, enter the new scales at points to be determined on the merits of each case. (paragraph 197). (clxii) Recommendation that cases where officers on conversion would receive less than on 31st December, 1946, or where officers' pensionable emoluments would be reduced on conversion should be dealt with on their merits. (paragraph 198).
(clxiii) Recommendation that officers in the Colony should opt in writing before 31st March, 1948, whether to come on to the new scales or to remain on the old conditions of service, and that officers on leave should be given a further extension of three months. (paragraph 199).