PART 1, SECTION III: 3.06.17-3.06.20
1 July 1965 with special arrangements and a grant in aid
covering restoration retrospective to the time of the original default - see SA 222/199/01, Part B.
3.06.18
The United Republic Government maintained however
that it had no responsibility for the Zanzibar local pensions
which were an internal domestic matter for the Zanzibar
Government. These local pensions continued to be in default
and outside the British loan advances net. [See also
].
The concern
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3.06.19 "Carr/Robertson Assurance" (1964)
aggravated by the Zanzibar default of overseas officers
and pensioners for the security of their overseas pension
rights was not fully assuaged by the British Governments policies and actions nor by the safeguards built in to
Independence Constitutions of overseas countries or the
POAS concluded with overseas governments.
representations were made from time to time that the British Government should unequivocally underwrite the expatriate's
overseas pensions and the matter was pressed very hard by
the Overseas Service Pensioners Association. The Government
held however to the principle that the overseas governments were responsible for the pensions and that any underwriting
would undermine that principle.
3.06.20 However it was recognised that the fear of the expatriates was genuine and that the Government had to deal
with the position consonant with its accepted special obligations towards expatriate Colonial Service /HMOCS
pensioners and with the maintenance of its overseas pensions
policy. This was done by giving the Overseas Service
Pensioners Association an assurance of the Government's
intentions in the matter. Accordingly Mr Robert Carr, the then Secretary for Technical Co-operation, wrote to Sir
James Robertson, the then President of the Association, on
18 August 1964,
"When you brought a delegation from the Overseas Service Pensioners Association to see me on the 30th
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