It is done by Trinidad and
Barbados.
This is
not, J
think comet
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* It dorsi't affect the rate of pension
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nevertheless providing for this; but it is still desirable that
it should be included done
if possible.
The existing
(2) Period of Contribution.
Ordinance provides for contributions of officers
after 35 successive years of contribution, In order to allow for cases of broken serviceą it is
proposed to amend this to 35 years (Section 9).
The rules, however, are based on the assumption
that the period of contribution will be completed
35 years after the commencement of contributions
so that neither the new nor the old definition
exactly corresponds with the rule. If an officer
we to contribute for 35 years and may have periods
of broken service in the meanwhile, it is clear that
his age at the completion of contribution, which
Xe must be known in order to compute the pension,
cannot be ascertained. This section should, there-
fore, provide for contributions to cease 35 years
after the commencement (or on reaching the age of
65).
leaving
(3) Officers the Service. The old
provisions are repealed and more detailed provisions,
which are claimed to be almost exhaustive, are
(see:10)
substituted Actually, they are by no means
h
exhaustive. In the first place, the definition
of "Public Service" is not always clear.
Presumably
it always means the Public Service
af
Hong Kong
but this is not explicitly stated.
There is another
much more serious mission. The amendment
provides, in effect, that any officer leaving the
service of the Colony in any way, with or without
pension, shall have an option to continue his
contributions, and explains in detail what these
contributions are to be how they are to be paid
in