4. If you do intend to consider on merits
all cases of officers referred to in both paras.1
and 2, will not similar difficulty arise in
answering representations from those among them
who are not given benefit of Salaries Commission terms?
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5. While the granting of pensions at the
revised rates to officers whose leave expired after
1st January 1947 might, as you state, result in
claims for similar treatment from officers whose
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leave expired in the latter part of 1946, it does not
seem that there would be difficulty in rejecting such
claims. The adoption of a fixed date in matters of
this kind always gives rise to hard cases, but it
seems to me that it would be more satisfactory and
simpler to decide claims by reference to the arbitrary
date of 1st January 1947 than to attempt discrimination
on merits between individual cases referred to in
paras. 1 and 2.
6. I am still of opinion that it would be preferable
to follow the normal practice and allow retrospective
application of Salaries Commission terms to all officers
on the Hong Kong establishment on 1st January 1947 except:-
(a)
(b)
those who have left the service as the
result of disciplinary proceedings between that date and the date of announcement of approval of the Salaries Commission recommendations
and
those serving on contract or temporary
agreement.
I would also agree to exclusion, as recommended in
para. 194 of Report, of:-
(c) Police Officers who retired before the age
of 45, and
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(a)
officers who have resigned or have been discharged
from the service between 1st January 1947 and the date of announcement of approval of the recommendations.
7.
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