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3. Normal retirement benefits (ie retired pay/pension and terminal

grant) will be paid to those made redundant, subject to two

extensions of the rules:

4.

(a) The normal minimum length of service required to qualify for immediate retired pay/pension (16 years' reckonable service from age 21 for officers, 22 years from age 18 for servicemen)

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be

10 years' qualifying service; those who have given at least

10 years' qualifying service, but less than 16 (or 22), will

receive immediate retired pay/pension and terminal grant

proportionate to the service they have actually given.

(b)

For officers the normal requirement of 2 years' service

in the substantive rank will be waived, and for servicemen

account may be taken of any paid rank held earlier if this

was higher than the substantive rank held at the date of

discharge.

Those who have given less than 10 years' qualifying service

at the time of redundancy will not qualify for immediate retired pay/

pension; they will however receive a Special Capital Payment

equivalent to 2 months' military salary for each year of qualifying

service, together with any other terminal benefits to which the

service they have given would normally entitle them.

5. The terms set out above apply to the categories described in

paragraph 2. Special arrangements will apply to certain categories

of officers and other ranks serving on commissions or engagements which do not qualify for immediate pension._7

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