CODE 18-77
Mr Cox
HKA 233/1
Reference
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HMOCS: CAPS IN PREVIOUS COMPENSATION SCHEMES
1. Your minute of 10 June.
417
2.
I attach a list of caps applied in previous compensation schemes with each cap uprated by RPI increase to December 1991. (suice all ODA calculations based on 1991 salanes)
3.
In three schemes (Barbados, Ghana and Seychelles) I have been unable to find a cap.
4. The "Benefit Scheme" for the Western Pacific (ie Kiribati, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and Vanuatu) needs further explanation. Introduced on 1 April 1969, this scheme was intended to "buy out" the officers' right to retire with a pension entitlement on or after reaching 45 by providing a lump sum benefit (payable in annual instalments) in return for the officers' undertaking to complete further periods of service in a pensionable capacity in the Western Pacific. Entry into the Scheme was voluntary, by the exercise of a once for all option; of the 103 officers eligible to enter, 99 exercised the option to do so. The maximum benefit payable under the scheme was £10,000 (Australian $21,430).
5. When the Western Pacific territories began to implement a strict localization policy, a Limited Compensation Scheme was introduced. This came into operation on 1 April 1975. The maximum amount of compensation payable under the LCS was Australian $32,000 or £18,000 whichever the greater. table of caps in previous compensation schemes therefore reflects the fact that the Western Pacific Scheme was not strictly the same as the others.
Енча Waliams
E L Williams
Hong Kong Department
WH 303 270 2652
23 June 1992
cc: Mr Stone
WADAEH JRB
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