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Miscellaneous,
No. 63.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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Imperial, Colonial, and Indian Pensions,
For many years there has been in operation a general principle that the service of the Government of the United Kingdom, of the Government of India, and of all Colonial Governments, was all equally service under the Crown; and that in that sense there was but one public service.
This principle has taken shape in two minor
forms :-
A.-That an officer has been permitted to exchange temporarily or permanently, under various conditions, from the service of one of these Governments to another without liability to forfeiture of his ultimate claim to retired or superannuation pay from his first employer, such as would have been involved by his giving up Government service to take employment not under Government.
B. That an officer who has been serving one Government and is about to enter the service of another has not been awarded, or having been awarded, has not been allowed to draw retired or superannuation pay from his earlier employer without regard to the amount of his remuneration from his later employer.
It is obvious that logically these two minor principles (A. and B.) must stand or fall together.
If the non-effective servant of a Government on taking service under another Government is to be regarded, as it is proposed under the new system, as still entitled without question to receive his non- effective pay from his earlier employer, because there has been a virtual change of employer," it is most anomalous that the effective servant of a Govern- ment on leaving its service should be allowed to retain certain privileges attaching to that service because he is only passing from the service of one Department under the Crown to another.
Probably no one would be found to dispute the valuable results that have followed from the exercise of the principle A. To take the case of Cyprus, there have been employed there, either temporarily or per- manently, since its transfer to British Administration, officers who have been previously employed under the War Office, the General Post Office, the Customs, the Colonial Office, and other Departments of the Govern- ment of the United Kingdom, the Governments of India, Hong Kong, Ceylon, and the Gold Coast. It is obvious that without the valuable system en- bodied in principle A, it would have been far more U 22341. 50-6/86. G. 74. Wt. 3687. E. & S. A