§ MR. CLELAND (Glasgow, Bridgeton)To ask the Secretary to the Treasury at what age and under what regulations and conditions officials in the Post Office, the Excise, Taxes, and the Customs 507 Departments, respectively, are called upon to retire after reacting sixty years of age.
§ (Answered by Mr. Runciman.) In all Departments of the public service an established officer may be called upon to retire at the age of sixty. Retention beyond this age depends upon efficiency; but retirement is compulsory in ordinary cases at the age of sixty-five. These rules are acted upon in the Departments refered to in the Question, but it is the practice of the Board of Inland Revenue to require all officers to retire at the age of sixty-two, provided they have completed forty years of pensionable service and that their retirement at this age is not thought to be detrimental to the public interest.