CO129-599-1 Salaries Commission 8-12-1947 - 22-12-1947 — Page 139

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If you do intend to consider on merits all cases of officers referred to in both paragraphs 1 and 2, will not similar difficulty arise in answering representations from those among thom who are not given benefit of salaries Commission terms?

5.

As regards the granting of pensions based on the revised rates to officers whone leave cspired after lat January 1947, this might, as you state, result in claims for similar treatment from

officers whose leave expired in the latter part of 1946, but it does not seem that there would be difficulty in rejecting such claiga. The adoption of a fixed date in matters of this kind always gives rise to hard cases, but it seems to e that it would be more satisfactory and simpler to decide claims by reference to the arbitrary date of t January 1947 than to attempt discrimination on merits between individual cases referred to in

parag aphs 1 and 2.

6. I am still of opinion that it would be preferable tu follow the normal practice and allow retrospective applic tion of salaries Commission terms to all officers on the Hong Kong establishment on 1st January 1947 ax opt:-

(a) those who have lai't the service as the

result of disciplinary proce dings between that date and the date of announcement of approval of the Salaries Commission

recon enviations

and

(b)