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SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
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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
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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.
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(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
ed from the
ned on a
the
ed double
result of
o an amount
ts. Pension
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nighest
pensionable emoluments drawn by the officer at any time
in the course of his public service.
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