CO129-599-1 Salaries Commission 8-12-1947 - 22-12-1947 — Page 25

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Establishments Branch would have to be consulted.

In other respects, the benefits of the Revision

should unquestionably apply to him; (e.g. his

pension should be based on the revised salary of

hie substantive post.)

I think that the arrangements as set out above

should apply in Hong Kong but, in view of the

Governor's representations, officers who had actually

proceeded on leave prior to retirement before the

effective date, the 1st January 1947, might be ex-

cluded. I agree that, as recommended in para. 194

of the Report, Police Officers retiring at the age of

and

45, officers who resigned or were discharged between

the 1st January 1947, and the date of the announcement,

should also be excluded.

"Thatever date is fixed for introducing the

revised salaries or for applying retrospective

benefits, it would be impossible to avoid anomalies

or apparent inequities,

There was, for instance,

an officer in West Africa who retired on the

31st December, 1945. If he had retired one day

later he would have obtained the benefit of the

revised salaries and his pension would have been

increased by roughly £180 per annum.

JEKing

April, 1948.