Admiralty Order in Council No. 62

11 February 1904.

A.G.

Whereas the scale of Retired Pay established by Your Majesty's Order in Council of the 28th March 1903, for Lieutenants, Engineer Lieutenants, and Carpenter Lieutenants promoted to those ranks for long and zealous service as Warrant Officer, &c., provides for the Retired Pay to be calculated at separate rates according to the several grades through which the Officers have passed, the individual rates to be applied to each year's service in the grades concerned:

And whereas we are of opinion that fractions of a year's service in each grade should be taken into account in the assessment of Retired Pay to these Officers, in a similar manner to that sanctioned by Order in Council of Her late Majesty bearing date the 11th August 1884, in regard to pensions to Warrant Officers.

We beg leave humbly to recommend that Your Majesty may be graciously pleased by Your Order in Council to approve of the following proposals, viz. : —

1. When the fractions of a year's service in each grade for which a separate rate of Retired Pay is assigned do not, in the aggregate, equal 365 days, no Retired Pay to be allowed in respect thereof.
2. When such fractions equal or exceed one, two, or three full years in the aggregate, Retired Pay to be awarded for one, two or three years respectively as follows : —

For each day of the fraction of service in the lowest grade, 1/365th of the annual rate assigned to such service.

For each day of the balance required to make up the one, two, or three full years, 1/365th of the annual rate or rates assigned to service in the higher grade or grades from which such balance is taken.

3. The minimum and maximum rates of Retired Pay to be inclusive of this addition.
4. The above provisions to apply to all Lieutenants, Engineer Lieutenants, and Carpenter Lieutenants who have been, or may hereafter be, placed on the retired list under Your Majesty's Order in Council of the 28th March 1903 aforesaid.

The Lords Commissioners of Your Majesty's Treasury have signified their concurrence in these proposals.

N.P. 623 / 1904.

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