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that they have unlimited time in which to do it.)

DEADLINE FOR TRANSFER TO PENSIONABLE TERMS

11. When HKG permits an officer to transfer to pensionable

terms, the officer himself has the choice of transferring

either when he is found medically fit or a (current) date

before the expiry of his contract. In practice, since contracts are normally two and a half years, this means

there could be a long time to run before the officer

actually becomes pensionable.

12.

If we allow officers to buy back service, the problem

identified in para 11 above arguably gives such officers the

best of both worlds: they can go on earning gratuities which they can then put towards their pension/compensation

if things look favourable in that direction. I therefore

recommend that we inform this category that whatever HKGs

policy may be, if they want to benefit from any scheme HMG

promulgates, they should transfer to pensionable terms

within six months of the date of the announcement of these

measures- in practice 30 April 1993.

PF Ricketts

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