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Persons to whom retrospective benefits should be granted.
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We recommend that retrospective benefits should only be granted to officers who are in the service of the Hong Kong Government at the date on which the final approval of our recommendations is announced. We would exclude from this recommendation those Police officers who were offered and accepted the opportunity of retirement before they had reached the age of 45. In addition we consider that officers who have resigned or have been discharged from the service between 1st January, 1947, and the date of the announcement should not benefit but we recommend that officers who wore in the Colony on duty on 1st January, 1947 and who have subsequently died, retired in the normal course of events or been invalided should have their salarios, death gratuitios, gratuities or pensions recalculated as if they had been on the revised scales at the time of death, invaliding or retirement.
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