11-JUN-1992 16:28
PAUL FIFOOT
From PAUL FIFOOT
11th June 1992
FAX TRANSMISSION
To: NIGEL COX
Hong Kong Department
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Fax: 071 270 3387
Pages: 2
0372723755
P.01/02
STERLING SAFEGUARDS: WHO IS ELIGIBLE ?
1. I mentioned to you that Public Officers Agreements did not necessarily confine eligibility for sterling safeguards to members of HMOCS. I have since looked at a number to confirm my recollection. The position is as follows.
2. In other territories the sterling safeguard was contained in the relevant Public Officers Agreement and the obligation was an obligation on the local government concerned to ensure that payment of pensions made outside the territory was such as would produce the sterling equivalent of the pension as at the rate of exchange on the appointed day. The appointed day was a day following more or less closely after independence.
3. The obligation applied to pensions payable to officers and dependents of officers but "officers" was not uniformly defined. In Zambia, for example, "officer" meant an officer (other than a re-employed officer) whose conditions of service at any time before the appointed day included an entitlement to free overseas passages for the purposes of leave and before that day was the substantive holder of a pensionable office in the N Rhodesia public service. Kenya also includes entitlement to overseas passages as part of the qualifying elements. Tanganyika refers to an overseas officer
who was, before the appointed day, the substantive holder of a pensionable officeg:
(a) who was selected for appointment by the
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