TNAG-0262-FCO40-298-Appointments-to-judiciary-of-Hong-Kong-1970 — Page 8

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Registry No.

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION

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DRAFT

Letter

To:-DR-Helmes, Esq.,SMG, OBE, MG,

Aetin

Sir Hugh Norman-Walker,

Colonial Secretary,

Type 1 +

From

E.0. Laird Telephone No. & Ext.

Department

PRIVACY MARKING

HONG KONG,

...In Confidence

Hong Kong

THIS MARGIN

INSERT

2.

huset steti

Please refer to the final paragraph of my letter

of 4 November to Ronnie Holmes concerning the question

of pensions for Judges appointed from the local Bar.

How

who once that

We have since heard from the ODA the a form of

INSERT pension arrangement based on the west Indian model might

be considered appropriate to the circumstances in

Hong Kong. In the West Indies, the Pension Act 1958, as

We have now heard from the ODA that their researches in this matter have confirmed their view that although certain arrangements were made in Ghana and India to provide special pension terms for similar circumstances, those which were made in ghana are now regarded as unsuitable, and that the scheme prepared for use in India was so parsimonious in its scale of benefits, and contained such overlong minimum qualifying terms, that it would not be appropriate to serve as a model for Hong Kong.

3.

(118281) Dd. 391599 1.500M 2/69 Aw.

However, they suggest

(that a form of pension ..etc)

arn pension

nsion to be

in special

Federal

rovided

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ned on a

the

ed double

result of

o an amount

ts. Pension

¡ and was

nighest

pensionable emoluments drawn by the officer at any time

in the course of his public service.

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