Admiralty Order in Council No. 69.

7th March 1904.

N.

Whereas by Orders in Council of Her late Majesty bearing date 26 June 1886, and the 16 May 1893, it is provided respectively that Engineers and Assistant Engineers of the Royal Naval Reserve shall be compulsorily retired at the age of fifty-five, and that Senior Engineers, Engineers and Assistant Engineers shall be eligible for a higher rank on retirement on account of age or physical unfitness.

And whereas we are of opinion that the age for the compulsory retirement of Senior Engineers, Engineers and Assistant Engineers, Royal Naval Reserve, should be reduced, and that Engineer Officers of the Royal Naval Reserve should be eligible for a higher rank on voluntary retirement after a certain period of service.

We beg leave humbly to recommend that Your Majesty may be graciously pleased by Your Order in Council to sanction the following changes in the retirement regulations for such officers : —

1. That the age for compulsory retirement of Senior Engineers, Engineers and Assistant Engineers, Royal Naval Reserve, who are in future promoted to those ranks, shall be forty-five,
2. That Engineer Officers, Royal Naval Reserve, who have held commissions on the active list of the Reserve as Senior Engineer or Engineer for not less than ten years shall be granted at our discretion the rank of Chief Engineer on retirement,
3. That Engineer Officers, Royal Naval Reserve, who have held commissions on the active list of the Reserve as Senior Engineer or Engineer for over five years shall be granted at our discretion the rank of Senior Engineer on retirement.
4. That Engineer Officers, Royal Naval Reserve, who have held commissions on the active list of the Reserve as Engineer or Assistant Engineer for not less than five years shall be granted at our discretion the rank of Engineer on retirement.

N. 3574 / 1904.

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