CO129-504-9 Pensions of government officers- improvement of terms 11-3-1927 - 21-11-1927 — Page 16

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The Pension Minute is amended as follows,

(1) by the substitution of the following sub-paragraph for

sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 1 of clause No.1,-

"(2) Subject to sub-paragraph (1) of this

paragraph, and to the other provisions of this Minute, every public officer who has served ten years or upwards may be awarded, on his retirement,

a pension at the rate of one seven-hundred-and-

twentieth of his annual salary for each completed

month of service, and if he, being of the class

ordinarily recruited in the United Kingdom, has

completed twenty five years tropical service and has

attained the age of fifty years then the rate will

be two seven-hundred-and-twentieths of his annual

salary for each completed month of service there-

after; to the computation at the said rate or rates

five-sixtieths of the officer's salary will be added:

Provided that in no case shall the total pension.

awarded to a public officer exceed forty-sixtieths

of the salary of such officer." and

(2) by the substitution of the following clause for clause

No.12,

"No. 12.

1. In determining 'salary' for the purposes of this

Minute, the salary of the substantive appointment

held by the officer at the date of his death or

retirement will be taken if he has held such office

or an office with the same salary for a period of three years immediately preceding such date; other- wise the average amount of the salary of the substantive appointments held by the officer during the three years immediately preceding his death or

retirement will be taken.