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loan-advances in lieu of pensions (and equivalent to their full sterling value), as the successor government has defaulted or as the circumstances of British withdrawal precluded the negotiation of normal arrangements.
3. In addition UK pensions legislation provides that all HMOCS pensioners are entitled to certain UK pension supplements (Supplementary Pension for Overseas Service: SPOS) to help match UK retail price inflation. This additional safeguard applies to HMOCS pensioners of the present Dependent Territories as well as to pensioners of former Dependent Territories.
NOTE: Four other territories have become independent since 1954: HMOCS officers did not serve in the Maldives, Sudan, (Anglo-Egyptian condominium) or Zimbabwe (formerly (Southern) Rhodesia), and we understand that any HMOCS officers who served in Tonga (British-protected state) did so on secondment from other territories.
Hong Kong Department
21 April 1992
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