HC Deb 03 July 1900 vol 85 c409
CAPTAIN NORTON

I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether, in view of the fact that the notice issued by the Civil Service Commissioners, on 7th April, 1894, announcing a competition limited to registered copyists for eight appointments as abstractor or assistant clerk, stating the maximum limit of age for entry at sixty, it was contemplated to retire a successful competitor upon reaching that age.

THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. HANBURY,) Preston

Whatever may or may not have been in the mind of the authorities when that notice was issued, there can be no question that, under the general rule of the service laid down in Clause 10 of the Order in Council of 15th August, 1890, and Clause 18 of the Order of 29th November, 1898, a civil servant is liable to be called upon to retire at the age of sixty.