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 10. The giving of notice by entitled officers who elect to retire from the Service

(i) An entitled officer may, at any time after the date on which this Scheme is announced. give notice of his intention to retire from the Public Service. An officer will normally be required to give six months resident service notice of retirement, provided that:—

(a) no period of notice can start more than four months before the operative date;

(b) a shorter period of notice than six months may be accepted by mutual agreement between the officer and the Government.

(c) the Government will not insist on the full period of six months' notice, if this would entail the officer's serving more than the normal tour prescribed for him or if approval has already been given for the officer to proceed on leave within six months of the date on which he gives notice of his intention to retire;

(d) if the officer gives notice of his intention to retire within three months of the commencement his current tour. his period of notice will start on the day following the completion of the first three months of his tour.

(ii) An entitled officer who gives notice of his intention to retire under this Scheme and who proceeds on leave prior to retirement before the expiration of the normal tour prescribed for him will be entitled to the full retirement passage and baggage concessions, prescribed by Standing Orders, which he would have been entitled to if he had completed the normal tour prescribed for him.

(iii) An entilled officer who is absent from North Bornco/Sarawak on vacation leave may (at any time after the announcement of this Scheme) give notice of his intention to retire from the Service, provided that no period of nouce can start more than four months before the operative date.

(iv) The Government may require the officer concerned to return to North Borneo/Sarawak after the expiration of the leave granted to him for a period of six months' residential service to work out his notice, in which event, the Government will pay the full cost of passages for the officer and his family to and from North Borneo Sarawak and will give the officer full retirement baggage concessions on his final journey from North Borneo/Sarawak, as if he were returning for and completing a full normal tour of service The Government will avail itself of its right to require an officer to retum to North Borneo Sarawak in these circumstances, only if this is essential in the public interest.

(v) If it is agreed that the officer need not return to North Borneo/Sarawak to work out a period of notice, he will forthwith be granted any balance of leave (including any deferred leave) earned up to the day on which he proceeded on leave, he will be allowed the retirement baggage concessions prescribed in Standing Orders, to enable him to transport his effects from North Borneo/Sarawak: and his service will be deemed to finish on the expiration of the leave due to him.

(vi) If the officer himself expresses a wish to return to North Borneo/Sarawak to settle up his affairs, he will be permitted to do so, but the cost of his and his family's passages will be paid by the Government only if he completes on his retum a final tour of not less than 12 months.

(vii) An entitled officer may request permission to withdraw his notice of retirement, but it will be for the Government to decide whether or not he should be permitted to do so.

11. Arrangements on Transfer

(i) If an entitled officer is offered, after the operative date, a transfer to pensionable public service scheduled under the Pensions Laws without a break in his service, and if he accepts such a fransfer, he will be liable to return any instalments of compensation paid to him; and it will be for the Goverment of North Borneo Sarawak to satisfy itself as to the arrangements made with the officer for this repayment (The amount of the refund will be shared equally between the North Borneo/Sarawak Government and the United Kingdom Government).