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United Kingdom-Trinidad and Tobago Public Officers Agreement

GOVERNMENT NOTICE NO. 135

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

UNITED KINGDOM-TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO PUBLIC OFFICERS AGREEMENT

Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and the Government of Trinidad and Tobago have agreed as follows :—

1. (1) References in this Agreement to an officer are references to a Interpreta- person who before the appointed day was the substantive holder of a pension- tion. able office in the public service of Trinidad and Tobago, being a person—

(a) who was selected for or offered appointment to an office in

such public service by a Secretary of State; or

(b) whose appointment to any such office was approved by a

Secretary of State; or

(c) who had entered into an agreement with the Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations to serve in any such office; or

(d) who (although he is not a person falling within paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of this Article) is or has been a member of Her Majesty's Overseas Civil Service or Her Majesty's Overseas Judiciary or has been a member of a former Colonial Unified Service.

(2) In this Agreement—

"the appointed day" means the 2nd day of December, 1960. "pension" means

(a) any pension, gratuity, compensation, retiring benefit or other like benefit payable by the Government of Trinidad and Tobago to or in respect of any officer, including any increase of pension;

(b) any pension, including any increase of pension, payable to the widow or child of an officer and any contributions repayable by that Government and interest thereon under any law providing for the payment of pension to the widows and children of officers;

"substantive holder" in relation to any office includes a person serving in that office on probation but does not include a person (other than a person serving under a probationary agreement) serving in that office for a specified term under a contract.

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2. (1) (a) Subject to the provisions of Article 3 of this Agreement an Conditions of

officer who does not cease to be in the public service of Trinidad Service. and Tobago before the appointed day shall be entitled to con- ditions of service not less favourable than those applicable to him immediately before that date.

(b) In this Article the expression "conditions of service" means the laws, rules, regulations, orders and other instruments that regulate the terms of service of an officer, including (without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing) provisions regu- lating his tenure of office, transfer, promotion, disciplinary control, remuneration, leave and passages.