Enclosure 2 to Despatch No. 398 of the 375
4th September 1907
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NOTES TO ACCOMPANY STERLING SALARY SCHEME.
1-()fficers on dollar salaries in Hongkong will be allowed to join the Sterling Schemo on transfer to Straits or Malay
States,
2.-Continued service on Maximum of a class to count practically towards increment in case of promotion to higher class. 3.--Dollar officers acting in a Sterling post will draw hall their own pay and half pay of that post in dollars at prezent rates. 4.---Sterling officers will draw half their own pay and half the Sterling pay of the acting appointment, 5.-Acting officers draw half the initial pay of posts but not so as to suffer loss on that acconsÉ.
6.---Officers are allowed 6 months after publication, to join the scheme, If they elect to stay on a dollar salary they must abide by such at prosent rates during the rest of their service in Hongkong, and so far as they are concerned the salaries of all appointments to which they are promoted will continue to be fixed in dollars.
7. Ofiers can join the Sterling scheme at the stage they would have reached if increments had hoon fixed at thể dates of
their respective appointments to their present posts.
8.--An example of the effect on contribution to the Widows and Orphans' Fond is as follows : —
Officers on $1,200 per sanam would pay to Widows and Orphans' Fund $48 per annum.
annum.
At 18 thisi per
Others
Officers on £180 (equivalent of above at 34-) would have to pay £7.4.0 per annum--a difference of £3.4s.
would be affected proportionately. The % on Sterling salary would be 4% of the exact amout of dollars paid as full salary.
9.-Officers on dollar salaries who entered the service before 1st July, 1897, get leave pay at 4- and pension at 3/8.
Officers who entered thereafter get 3'- for both.
At pre-
10. The system of rate of exchange for payment of Sterling salaries is not yet fixed by the Secretary of State.
sent it is the average from 1st July, two years before, to 30th June of the year before. It is suggested that the monthly rate be taken as in the case of Exchange Compensation.
11-Officers who are allowed the privilege of occupying Government quarters have no persouni claim to such quarters nor will they be allowed after their next promotion or on acceptance of Sterling salary to count the value of such quarters for pension purposes. No officer appointed on an original Sterling salary will be allowed to coner the value of free quarters for pension purposes.
12.--Offeers at present serving under agreements have the option of coming under the Sterling Scheme and will be required
to accept Sterling salaries ou re-engagement.
Circular No 43.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 4th September, 1902.
Sterling Salaries Scheme.
The accompanying scheme) approved by the Secretary of State for the Colonies is promulgated for the information of Weads of Departments and for communication by them to such officers of their Departments as are concerned. Attention is particularly called to the cxplanatory notes which are attached.
Officers are given a limit of 6 months within which to decide whether they will come under the sterling scheme or not, but any officer may accept it at once and those whose acceptances are received in time for the preparation of the pay
sheets in
any one month will begin to draw sterling salaries from the 1st of the current month.
By Command,
F. A. May, Colonial Secretary.
The heads of Departments.
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