pension
as well as increase
of
pay, and where therefore, it was
necessary in the shape of exchange
to apply
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the service for the
a correction
lower rate of
The new rates of exchange were also made applicable to all persons thereafter entering
for the first time and to all promotions to offices to which increased pay of not less than 14% was annexed, but the dispatch does not
say anywhere
either directly or indirectly, as it ought to have done if Your Lordship's ruling
on the subject is
correct, that all promotions of all
officers who had once
increased were to be
all benefited by the subject to the
new rules, and the reason of this limitation and omission is clear.
14:
An
officer's half pay
is calculated on the pay
he is drawing the day
he goes on leave.
on the pay he
officer's pension
has been receiving for the three years previous to the date of retirement. If he is at these dates in receipt of enhanced pay, granted because of living
in the Colony, he is not
to have more
out of
the
half pay or pension
than if the
enhanced rates had never
been conceded. If, at date
of leave or
at date of going
on retirement, he is the holder of
an office that obtained no rise to meet local needs, he will be entitled
to no
larger
dollar amount
of leave pay or pension
than if
there had never been any
Therefore,
increase
of salaries, and for applying any
exchange to its reduction. If otherwise, he would get less leave pay and less pension than the appointment carried. If the fact that he had formerly held an office that did obtain an
increase
of pay gave
a claim