II. Valuation of marters for Pension Purposes.
The scheme for the unification of the Colonial
Administrative Service recommended in the case of officers serving on the standard long scale, fixed values for quarters for each class in the scale, calculated approximately, though not exactly, on the basis of 16 per cent of the minima salary of the class. in the nose of officers serving in super-scale posts the schoue proposed a similar system, i.e. the division of the salaries applicable to such posts into ranges, and the adoption of a fixed value for quarters, calculated on the
same basis, for each range.
The adoption of a system of fixed values
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could not be limited to the administrative scale alone, and
if it were extended to the other proposed scales it woulé ba
necessary, in view of the variations in these coales and in
the points at which promotion and efficiency bars occur, CO
frame several separate tables of fixed values,
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In order to avoid con,lications of this sort 14 is projesød
that the existing system for calculating the value of
quarters for pension purposes in the case of officers on the
long standard scales should be retained.
But as regards officers holding super-scale posts there is a good deal to be said in favour of the proposals in the unification scheme. There is no logical reason, if the principle of valuing quarters in relation to the aalary of the officer concerned is accepted, why it should
not be extended to all appointments. Apart from that point, it will be appreciated that officers serving on the new standard administrative scale, and on most of the other
scales, if the proposals for revising these latter scales are accepted, will receive some compensation for the
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