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 262 :"compensation" means any sum of money, not being a pension or the commutation thereof or a gratuity, which is payable by the Government of Malaysia, on or after the appointed day, either in one payment or by instalments, including any sum payable by way of commutation of additions to a pension, to a designated officer by virtue of arrangements for the payment of compensation approved by a Secretary of State for the purpose of this Agreement;


 * "contract officer" means a designated officer seconded from the service of the Government of Sabah or the Government of Sarawak to the service of the Government of Malaysia or recruited by the Government of Malaysia for service in Sabah or Sarawak who is on or after the appointed day a party to a contract of service in writing with one or other of the aforementioned Governments and whose service under that contract does not qualify him for a pension;


 * "designated officer" means an officer designated as such by a Secretary of State who is


 * (i) an expatriate officer who, on or after the appointed day, is seconded by the Government of Sabah or the Government of Sarawak for service under the Government of Malaysia or is recruited by the Government of Malaysia for service in Sabah or Sarawak or is transferred to the service of the Government of Malaysia in the office of Judge of the High Court of Borneo having immediately before such transfer been the substantive holder of a pensionable office in the service of the Government of Sabah or the Government of Sarawak; and


 * (ii) who


 * (a] is a member of Her Majesty's Overseas Civil Service; or


 * (b) was selected for appointment by or with the approval of a Secretary of State, or was recruited by the Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations; or


 * (c) was otherwise recruited to a post for which a normal channel of recruitment is either the Ministry of Overseas Development or the Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations and whose appointment for the purpose of this Agreement is approved by a Secretary of State;


 * "gratuity" means the sum payable to a contract officer, in addition to salary and allowance, under his contract of service, and described therein as such or in the laws and regulations applicable thereto, in return for service rendered, whether such sum is paid at the conclusion of that service or otherwise;


 * "passage" means transportation of a designated officer, his wife, children and effects by such means, by such routes, in such classes of accommodation and in

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