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(b) that either he has served for a period of not less than 24 months of residential service after the operative date or his office has been abolished or he is required to return to the Home Civil Service to facilitate the localisation or re-organisation of the Public Service;

(c) that the compensation shall not in any case exceed half the compensation which would have been payable to him if he had retired at the date of his transfer and

(d) that the compensation shall be paid as set out in paragraph 6 above.

19. Arrangements regarding the refund of compensation on established appointment to the Home Civil Service (including the Foreign Service)

(i) An entitled officer who enters the pensionable establishment of the Home Civil Service through a competition conducted by the Civil Service Commissioners will not be required to refund his compensation if there is a break between the last day of his pensionable service under the North Boraco/Sarawak Government and the first day of his established service in the Home Civil Service.

(ii) An officer who takes up an established appointment in the Home Civil Service without a break in service may be regarded for the purpose of the North Borneo/Sarawak Pensions Law as having been transferred to the Home Civil Service Subject to the provisions of paragraph 11 above, he will be required to refund any instalments of compensation he has received and will not be eligible to receive a pension from the North Boraco/Sarawak Goverment (or any other scheduled govemment which he has served) until his final retirement from public service.

(iii) An entitled officer who, having been formerly a pensionable member of the Home Civil Service, returns to a pensionable appointment in that Service, otherwise than as the result of a competition conducted by the Civil Service Commissioners, within twelve months of the expiration of his retirement leave from North Bornco/Sarawak, shall receive either compensation calculated in accordance with paragraph 11 above, or half the compensation to which he is entitled, whichever is the less and will be required to refund any instalments of compensation in excess of this amount which he may already have received The amount of the refund will be shared equally between the North Boraca/Sarawak Government and the United Kingdom Govern- ment The compensation shall be paid as set out in paragraph 6 above.

20. Abolition of office terms

(i) An entitled officer shall not be eligible to receive any addition to carned pension or gratuity provided for in the Pensions Ordinance or Scheme in respect of abolition of office dhe receives compensation for loss of career.

(ii) An entitled officer who before the operative date gives notice of retirement under this Scheme may at his option on his retirement receive the abolition addition to pension provided for in the pensions law or Scheme instead of the compensation provided for under this Scheme.

21. General

Any compensation or gratuity payable under this Scheme to an officer or to his personal representatives or dependants shall be paid in accordance with any requests made from time to time by such officer, his personal representatives or his dependants, as the case may be, in any of the following countries:—

(a) in the United Kingdom;

(b) in North Borneo, Sarawak. Malaya or Singapore;

(c) in the country from which the officer was recruited or where he intends to reside;

(d) in the case of payment to the personal representatives of an officer or his dependants, in the country in which the personal representatives or the dependants, as the case may be, reside; or

(e) in such other country as the officer or his personal representatives or dependants may, with the concurrence of the North Borneo/Sarawak Government, select.

Payment shall be made in the currency of the country in which payment is to be made, and where payment is to be made in a country other than North Borneo/Sarawak. the amount of the payment shall be such as would produce at the official rate of exchange prevailing at the date of payment, the amount in sterling of the compensation or gratuity as calculated at a rate of exchange not less than Sterling two shillings and four pence 2s. 4d.) to the Malayan dollar.