ROYAL NAVY

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 149, 28 June 1929, Page 3

ROYAL NAVY

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDERS

A RETIREMENT SCHEME

(From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, 9th May Fleet Orders dated 3rd May and issued two. days ago by the Admiralty contain particulars of another special retirement scheme for senior lieuten-ant-commanders. The text, of the Admiralty Order is as follows:— "Owing to a surplus which exists on the Lieutenant-Commanders' List and the certainty that, unless that surplus is removed, long periods of unemployment will be necessary for the more senior officers, the Board have decided that Lieutenant-Commanders, R.N., other than those promoted from warrant rank, but including those promoted from mate, and officers on the Supplementary List, who will have attained the age of .compulsory retirement (45), by 31st December, 1933, may, at the discretion of the Admiralty, be permitted to retire voluntarily forthwith, with the rate of retired pay for which they would have been eligible under" the ordinary regulations if they had remained on the active list and had been employed continuously until reaching the age of 45, "2. For the purpose of assessing the retired pay of officers who retire under this scheme and who are now oil unemployed or half-pay, the period between , the date of retirement and date of attaining the age of 45 will be regarded as continuous employment—i.e., it will be reckoned in full towards service for retired pay. "3.. Officers serving abroad who are allowed to retire under this Order will be granted full pay up to date of arrival in England,. and will also. b,e granted free passage home, provided they return by a direct route without delay. Foreign service leave will not be granted. If they elect to remain abroad, passage money will not be granted in lieu of passage. Officers holding appointments abroad carrying free or assisted passage facilities for their families will be granted free or assisted homeward passage for their families, subject to the usual .conditions, pi'oyided the return to England is .maclo by a direct route without delay. " "'" ' '-■'•"i. All applications must be ■subniited within a period of six months from the date of this Order. Those of officers serving should bo forwarded through the usual channels, accompanied by the certificate, prescribed by Article 1112 of the King's Eegulations and Admiralty Instructions. "5. The Admiralty reserve the right to withdraw these terms at any time, without notice, as soon as the requisite reduction of the list has been effected, and also the right of withholding, either in whcle or in part, these special terms from any officer. They may also direct that any officer is to be retired under any other regulations which are' applicable to his case. "6. Commanding officers are to take steps to bring this Order to the notice of officers on leave. In the case of officers on unemployed pay at the full pay rate, similar action is to be- taken by the depots on whose books they are borne. Additional copies of .the Admiralty Fleet Order for this purpose will be supplied on demand.^' .'