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414 VUDI ASAINVE

pensionable

and the Administrator of Anguilhare

should remain at Grade 4 but that a responsibility allowance

of £1,00 per annum be paid to each Governor in recognition

of his added duties. Since the Governor of St Helena i also graded at DS4 equivalent, the meeting concluded that they

should likewise receive the allowance

5.

suggested

because & Count the duties of a Governor

On (b), the Inspectors recommended that on account of the duties tickom readmist him to his territoog were so vestrictive

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the islands'

remeteness and general shortage of amenities, there was a

them Geten

good case for allowing annual leave. The Governors of

Montserrat and the Turks and Caicos Islands, and HM

Commissioner, Anguilla, already qualify for leave every 12 months; the remainder (the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands and St Helena), qualify for leave only every

(after which the entitlement is usually more than the Governes can reasonably take)

when 18 months. The meeting agreed that it would be equitable to standardise leave for all DS4 Governors at 12 months. (This concession for the Governor of St Helena would not apply to the Administrators of Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha, who, although in direct control of their respective terri-

not Cories, are considered to have a comparable degree of respon-

moneone,

sibility to the Governor, and are, constitutionally responsible to him.)

5.

The financial implications of these two proposals are set but in the attached sheet. Briefly, the responsibility

allowance will involve an additional £6,000 pa. the annual

Leave for the three extra territories will mean an additional

10,422.c.

PSD WIAD and the Inspectorate agree.