1908 11 27
Engineer Commanders - Retirement
At the Court at Windsor Castle, the 21st day of November, 1908.

Present, The King's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

Whereas there was this day read at the Board a Memorial from .the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, dated the eighteenth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and eight, in the words following, viz.:-

Whereas by section three of the Naval and Marine Pay and Pensions Act, 1865, etc.

And whereas by Orders in Council of Her late Majesty of 30th April 1877, and the 29th June, 1900, and also by Your Majesty's Order in Council of 28th March 1903, the rank of Engineer Captain may be granted at our discretion to Engineer Commanders on retirement, provided they have had thirty years' meritorious service:

And whereas by Your Majesty's Order in Council of 19th March, 1908, the age for compulsory retirement will be gradually reduced from fifty-five to fifty years, so that the number of officers having thirty years' full pay service on retirement will diminish, and when retirement becomes compulsory at the age of fifty, few, if any, will be eligible for a step in rank :

And whereas we consider it desirable that the period of service on full pay required to qualify an Engineer Commander for the rank of Engineer Captain on retirement should be reduced :

We beg leave humbly to recommend that Your Majesty may be graciously pleased by Your Order in Council to sanction the reduction of the qualifying period from thirty to twenty-seven years.

The Lords Commissioners of Your Majesty's Treasury have signified their concurrence in this proposal.

His Majesty, having taken the said Memorial into consideration, was pleased, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, etc.
W. FitzRoy.

1909 02 26
Engineer Commanders - Retirement
And whereas by Orders in Council of Her late Majesty of 30th April, 1877, and 29th June 1900, and also by Your Majesty's Order in Council of 28th March, 1903, the rank of Engineer Captain may be granted at our discretion to Engineer Commanders on retirement, provided they have had thirty years' meritorious service:

And whereas by Your Majesty's Order in Council of the 21st November 1908, the qualifying period was reduced from thirty to twenty-seven years:

And whereas we consider it desirable that this provision shall take effect from the date on which the new regulations for Engineer officers sanctioned by Your Majesty's Order in Council of the 19th March 1908, came into force:

We beg leave humbly to recommend that Your Majesty may be graciously pleased by Your Order in Council to sanction the change taking effect from the 1st April 1908.

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