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Reference

CONFIDENTIAL

35 FILE

FROM: M V STONE

Hong Kong Department

DATE: 5 August 1992

HKA 233/5

Mr Cox

Mr Ricketts

CC: Mr Fifoot

Mr Fish ODA

ENROLEMENT OF POST-RETIREMENT AGE JUDGES IN HMOCS: ELIBIBILITY

FOR OVERSEAS P AND P OFFICERS TO HAVE A STERLING SAFEGUARD FOR

PENSIONS

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1. Mr Hoare's letter of 31 July about Messrs Faud and

Kempster is not very helpful. We have now received another

application from a Magistrate who is beyond normal retirement

age. There is really only one issue at stake: whether these officers will be disadvantaged vis-a-vis pension protection if

we do not allow them to become members of HMOCS. The position

is set out below.

2.

"

In his minute of 11 June to Mr Cox, Mr Fifoot explained that in previous territories not only HMOCS officers were entitled to have their pension protected in sterling terms. A range of officers was protected but essentially those entitled

had to:

(a) be overseas officers:

(b) have service as a substantive holder of a pensionable office (ie on P and P terms):

(c) have been recruited or appointed on the kind of terms which rendered the appointee eligible for HMOCS even though he might not be a member of HMOCS.

retment,jud.ADM

SLM

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