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GENERAL ORDERS #37 (As revied June, 1933)
(1) Exchange Compensation Allowance is a permanent but not a pensionable emolument. It has been granted to certain officers whose salaries are on a dollar basis and who were appointed before the 17th of January, 1903.
(2) Every such officer, while on service in the Colony, or on vacation leave or half-pay leave in a country having a silver standard; is allowed to draw as Exchange Compensation Allowance the difference between the salary drawn by him at 2s.4d. and the same sum at 3s. to the dollar.
(3) The allowance is payable only on salaries and on such allowances as are expressly stated to have the benefit of Exchange Compensation Allowance. It will be drawn regularly with salary and must be shown on the salary sheets in a separate column. It is calculated on the actual salary, whether permanent, temporary or acting, of the officer drawing it.
(4) Except in special cases where the authority of the Governor has been obtained it cannot be claimed in respect of salaries paid out of open votes.
(5) A temporary allowance for a period of three years from the 1st January, 1907, at the rate of 10 per cent per annum of their salaries was granted to certain officers whose salaries are fixed in sterling or who are in receipt of Exchange Compensation and has been since extended for a further period of two years.
(6) This allowance will not count for pension, nor will it be paid to an officer while on half-pay leave or on vacation leave followed by half-pay leave (not on medical certificate). It will be paid to an officer on vacation leave in the Colony or in the Federated Malay States. It may also be paid to an officer on vacation leave in the Netherlands Indies, Ceylon or India, provided that vacation leave spent in those countries is not followed by half-pay leave.
(7) Officers on dollar salaries with Exchange Compensation will draw 10 per cent of the actual salaries received by them including exchange compensation.
(8) An officer acting in an appointment other than his substantive appointment will draw the allowance on the total salary drawn by him.
(9) The Exchange Compensation Allowance and the local allowance of ten per cent are not liable to the monthly abatement of four per cent under "Ordinance No. 89 (widows' and Orphans' Pension)".
PENSIONS
39. (1) The grant of pensions on retirement is regulated, in the case of officers other than Police Officers below the rank of Assistant Superintendent, by the provisions of "Ordinance No.41 (Pensions)" and the Regulations thereunder made from time to time by the Governor in Council with the sanction of the Secretary of State; and, in the case of Police Officers below the rank of Assistant Superintendent, by Regulations made by the Governor in Council under the "Police Force Ordinance, 1920."
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