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Method of calculation of Leave Reserve for Administrative Officers.
1.
Factors to be taken into account:
Average age of entry:
24 (i. e. date of selection).
First Course of Training:
15 months.
Average age on arrival in Colony:
25 years, 123 days.
Long leave:
40
10
One day in seven up till the age of 45 years and 20 years service, granted after a tour of four years. Thereafter 2 days in 11, granted after a tour of three years.
Average time taken for one passage to and from U.K.:
Local leave:
32 days.
15 days in any one year.
Language study:
Two years from first arrival in Colony.
Second course of training:
Seven months once in the course of service.
Sabbatical leave:
Omitted from calculation because instructions have not yet been received. May be up to 2 years once in the course of service for selected officers.
Sick leave:
Omitted from calculation because prewar statistical records have been lost.
Compulsory retirement Age:
55 years.
Earliest Age at which General Order 197 (10) (b) may operate to make it advantageous for an officer to apply for the Governor's consent to retire- ment under section 8 (b) of the Pensions Ordinance, No. 21 of 1932:
52 years, 240 days.
Average age on leaving service (ignoring premature retirement on medical ground, tranfers and dismissals):
53 years 303 days.
Average length of service from 1st arrival in the Colony:
2.
28 years 280 days.
The total years of service of an officer who arrives in the
Colony at the average age and retires at the average age may be divided
as follows: