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APPENDIX.
(Circular.)
SIR,
1.
Downing Street, August 20, 1889. WITH reference to the Earl of Carnarvon's Circular despatch of the 3rd of September, 1875, I have the honour to acquaint you that it has been decided that the Superannuation Act, 1859, does not allow of a pension being granted thereunder in any circumstances whatever to an officer of the Civil Service retiring from public employment under the age of 60 years, except on the ground of ill-health or of abolition of office.
Officers who have been transferred from the Imperial Civil Service to the Civil Service of a Colony in which the pensionable age is less than 60 years, should therefore be given to under- stand that, on their retirement from Colonial service, the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury will not be able to award them pensions in respect of their Imperial service under the Act of 1859 if that retirement takes place under 60 years of age, unless it be for one of the two reasons above mentioned.
The Officer Administering
I have, &c.,
KNUTSFORD.
the Government of
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(Circular.)
SIR,
II
Downing Street, November 24, 1902. WITH reference to Viscount Knutsford's Circular despatch of 20th August, 1889, I have the honour to state that I have been informed by the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury that where any officer who has been transferred from the Imperial Civil Service to the Civil Service of a Colony is removed from the latter service on the ground of his inability to discharge efficiently the duties of his office under the provisions of any Colonial Law similar to Section 2 (1) of the Superannuation Act, 1887, his claim to pension for his Imperial service may be admitted under the Pensions (Colonial Service) Act, and the Superannuation Act, 1887, taken together, notwithstanding that the retirement takes place under 60 years of age. It is to be noted, however, that in the Imperial Civil Service cases dealt with under Section 2 of the Superannuation Act, 1887, the officer does not as a rule receive the full amount of pension for which he would be qualified by his length of service.
2. I have to add that an officer transferred from the Imperial Service to the service of any Colony or Protectorate to which the provisions of the Superannuation Act of 1892 have been applied, can receive a pension for his Imperial service if he retires at any age at which the Regulations of the Colony permit him to retire without a medical certificate. The follow- ing is a list of the Colonies and Protectorates the Funds of which have now been determined by the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury to be Public Funds within the meaning of Section 4 of the last mentioned Act, viz.:-the_Windward Islands, the Leeward Islands, all the West African Colonies and Protectorates, Ceylon, Straits Settlements, Federated Malay. States, Hong Kong, Weihaiwei, Gibraltar, St. Helena, Falklands, Seychelles, British East Africa and British Central Africa. Also the fund out of which are paid the salaries of the Sergeant-Majors and Sergeants of the Jamaica Constabulary Force appointed under Jamaica Law 18 of 1895 (the Constabulary Law, 1867, Amendment Law, 1895), has been determined to be a Public Fund within the meaning of the Superannuation Act, 1892.
3. I have to explain that, in the case of the Colonies and Protectorates mentioned in the last paragraph, the amount of the pension grantable in respect of the Colonial portion of the Officer's service will not be affected by the application of the Superannuation Act, 1892, to such Colony or Protectorate, but such pension will still be governed by the special pension rules of each Colony or Protectorate.
I have, &c..
The Officer Administering
the Government of
J. CHAMBERLAIN.
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