§ 64. Major Raynerasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that employés in the higher division of the Civil Service have recently had their employment terminated on reaching 60 years of age, notwithstanding that, on appointment, they had been informed that they would earn a maximum pension after 40 years' service and that the examinations on which the appointments were made could only be taken by the candidates at an age which made it impossible for them to serve 40 years before attaining the age of 60, and that, in this manner, certain Civil servants have been deprived of the possibility of earning the maximum pension upon which they had reasonably relied; and what action he is taking in the matter?
§ The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Lieut. - Colonel Colville)Article 15 of the Order in Council of 10th January, 1910, provides that it shall be competent for the Head of any Department to call upon any officer of such Department to retire at any time after 944 reaching the age of 60 on such pension as by the length of his service he is qualified to receive. This Article repeats the provision of Article 10 of the Order in Council of 19th August, 1890. These provisions are well known to all Civil servants, and there is no ground therefore for the suggestion in my hon. and gallant Friend's question that a Civil servant who is retired on age grounds before qualifying for the maximum pension has any legitimate cause for complaint.