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under a scheme made under the Overseas Pensions Act as a result of an agreement made with the territory". The loan advances do amount to the full value of the pensions. theory, they are repayable but in practice, HMG have assumed responsibility for payment. (Mr McDonald told me in confidence that the ODA have in fact made proposals to the Treasury to write off these loans.)
6.
In Aden, Somaliland protectorate and Zanzibar, HMG are paying the pre-independence element of locals' pensions in the form of loan advances ("hardship" loan advances). For expatriates a sterling safeguard was built into the loan advances. But for locals the pensions are paid at the current rate of exchange. All expatriates get pension supplement. If and when there is an agreement with these countries to take over the pensions, the expatriate pensions will be paid under a pension scheme made under the Overseas Pensions Act 1973. There would also be an attempt to hand back to Aden and Somaliland the responsibility for the payment of the local pensions.
East African Community
7. The East African Common Services Organisation or, with effect from 1 December 1967, the East African Community had its own POA, the actual signatories of which were the individual states of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. The Secretary of State recruited expatriates for posts in sectors such as post and telecommunications, railways and harbours. The Secretary of State also recruited for posts in the public services of the three individual countries for posts not covered by the Common Services of the EAC. We should treat the East African Community in the same way as any other former dependent territory, as HMG are still paying the pensions of those officers who were employed in the sectors outlined above. By 1976 the East African Community had all but disappeared.
Singapore
8.
When looking at the case of Singapore, we must remember that there were usually two stages in the process of taking over the payment of pensions. Stage I is the reimbursement and Stage II is the physical takeover of pensions. Stage I took effect in the majority of cases from 1 April 1971 and this covered all former colonies who were in receipt of aid at that time. Singapore (and Malaysia) were in receipt of budgetary aid until at least 1973. Stage I for these territories did not take effect until then.
9.
I will check with the geographical desks of the ODA in Victoria Street (as Mr McDonald recommended) as to whether countries such as Cyprus and Malta were considered to be aid-worthy in 1971. I suspect that this was the case.
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