APPENDIX
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Suggested scheme of compensatory pensions for officers retired on
medical grounds
For the purpose of formulating a definite scheme
of compensatory pensions on the basis discussed in the
covering memorandum, it is proposed to assume that the
arrangement will be confined to officers who at the
time of retivement on medical grounus have completed
service of sufficient length to qualify them for pension.
If it should be decided to apply the arrangement to officers retired before they are qualified for pension,
it would not be difficult to devise a formula extending
to their cases the principles on which the scheme of
compensation discussed below is based.
The question of the stage in an officer's
career at which he should cease to be eligible for any
benefits under the scheme must first be considered.
On retirement after twenty years' service on the new salary
scales an Administrative officer would be eligible for an
unreduced pension of slightly over £450 per annum.
This compares favourably with the awards payable to an
officer of approximately comparable status in the home
civil service on rotirement after twenty-five years'
service.
The extent of the curtailment of career is
approximately the same in either case (since the home
service officer would normally be employed up to the age
of sixty years) and there should not be any marked
difference between the necessary expenses of the two
pensioners,
It is suggested, therefore, that there is no
need to provide for compensatory additions to the pensions of officers retired on medical grounds after the completion
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