which the actuarial basis of the Scheme has been
calculated and it can only be altered by getting
fresh actuarial calculations.
The age
for boys
limit
is
18 in all these Schemes and
Funds, a boy can start earning his own
living then and most- do - especially sons of lower grade European and native officers, who of course form the vast majority of the contributors
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(5).Similarly, it is proposed, (Section 13),
to increase the age limit for male children from
18 to 21. This also may be desirable, but the same
objections apply as to (4).
(6).Introduction of 8% Tables. It was proposed
in 1920 that new tables based on calculations of 8%
should be introduced (See 12225/19). At long last
this proposal is about to be carried into effect,
(Section 14). The despatch on 12225/19 suggested
that this change should be retrospective to the 1st
January 1920. To make it retrospective to that
date now would involve much work and expense and
this is probably why it has not been done. The
Governor does not, however, refer to the matter and
it may have been overlooked. The Malayan Government
made the provision retrospective to 1920 although
their legislation was not enacted until 1925, (See
13658/19 and 27161/25).
(7) Dissolution of Marriages. Section 16
repeals the old provision and substitutes a clause
which is intended to make the law cleare. The
principal object seems to be to protect a wife
who has divorced her husband. Where the husband is
the injured party and divorces his wife she is
treated as if she were dead; but if the wife does
the divorcing she is to continue to be treated as
the officer's wife. All this high morality is
out of place in the Widows' and Orphans Pension
Scheme. The object of that is to protect an
officer's existing wife and children, not to
preserve che