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 (v) Service (whether under the North Borneo/Sarawak Government or under a scheduled Government) shall count for compensation to the same extent as it counts in the computation of the officer's retirement benefits in respect of service under a scheduled Government as defined in the Pensions Ordinance.

(vi) The pensionable emoluments to be taken for calculation will be the pensionable emoluments which the officer is drawing on the date taken for calculation.

(vi) The compensation due to officers who remain on the pensionable establishment will not decrease below the figure as assessed on the operative date. The compensation of these officers will be recalculated each year to take account of changes in age, salary and length of service or promotion, where, this will result in an increased assessment, and the officers entitlements will not thereafter fall below the increased amounts. This process will continue after the sixth instalment has been paid and any further compensation will be paid on each anniversary of the date taken for calculation.

(vi) The tables shall be interpreted on the basis of completed months of age and service only where this is to the advantage of the officer concerned. In all other cases. the compensation factor of an officer shall he based on completed years of service and his age on his last birthday before the date taken for calculation.

(ix) Every entitled officer who is offered promotion carrying an increase in his pensionable emoluments after the operative date will (irrespective of the effective date of the promotion) be required, as a condition of the offer of promotion, to undertake to serve the Goverment of North Borneo Sarawak for a further period of not less than 24 months residential service from the date of notification of the promotion. The recalculation, on any date subsequent to the operative date of officer's entitlement to compensation, will also be made on the basis of the pensionable emoluments which the officer is drawing on such subsequent clate excent that if the officer breaks bis undertaking by retiring without the agreement of the Government before serving for 24 months' residential service, his compensation will be calculated on the basis of the annual pensionable emoluments he was drawing immediately before the date of his promotion, or on the basis of the average of his annual pensionable emoluments during the three years before his retirement, whichever is the greater. An officer who accepts promotion, after giving an undertaking to serve for not less than 24 months' residential service, and who might, in order to complete his 24 months, have to return to North Boraco/Sarawak for a final tour of less than 12 months may be required by the Government to serve for a final tour of not more than 12 months.

(x) The compensation of an entitled officer who continues in the pensionable service after the operative date will be increased by an amount arrived at by multiplying his annual pensionable emoluments on each anniversary of the operative date or finally on his retirement by a factor of 0.10 in respect of each completed period of 12 months service (and pro rata for each completed month) since the operative date or the previous anniversary as the case may be This compensation shall not be affected by the ceiling of £12,000 provided for in sub-paragraph (ii) above and shall be paid in one lump surn on each anniversary of the operative date and finally on retirement. For the purpose of this sub-paragraph deferred leave as at the operative date shall not be reckoned as service.

(xi) Each entitled officer will be given an initial certificate of the amount of compensation to which he is entitled on the occasion of its initial calculation and (in the case of officers who continue to serve on pensionable terms) on the occasion of any subsequent recalculation. Where an officer retires from the pensionable service before the final instalment of compensation has been paid to him, he will be given a final certificate of his entitlement as soon as possible after his retirement leave has expired and after all details of his age, salary and length of service at the date of his final retirement have been taken into account.

(xii) Some officers may wish to use the certificates provided under (xi) to establish their creditworthiness with vanous lending institutions To assist in this Her Majesty's Government have informed the major financial institutions in the United Kingdom which provide credit-the banks, insurance institutions and building societies the existence d' compensation schemes providing for capital payments by instalments to which Her Majesty's Government contribute and of the provision of certificates entitlement to individual officers These institutions have informed their branches accordingly and have left it the responsibility of their branch managers to take