HC Deb 25 October 1955 vol 545 c76

Resolution reported, That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to provide for the payment of gratuities to or in respect of former officials of the Government or Parliament of the Sudan, it is expedient to authorise the payment out of moneys provided by Parliament of—

  1. (a) any sums required for the payment of those gratuities, so, however, that—
    1. (i) the said sums shall not in the aggregate exceed one hundred and sixty thousand pounds; and
    2. (ii) in the case of any one person, the aggregate of any such gratuity paid to or in respect of him and any lump sum payment made to him by the Sudan Government by way of compensation for loss of career shall not exceed the equivalent of eight thousand five hundred Egyptian pounds, the pound sterling being taken to be the equivalent of ninety-seven and a half Egyptian piastres;
  2. (b) the following increases, with effect from the sixteenth day of July, nineteen hundred and fifty-five, in the superannuation allowances which would otherwise be payable, or might otherwise be granted, under the Superannuation Acts, 1834 to 1950, and the Superannuation (Diplomatic Service) Act, 1929, to Sir Robert Howe, lately Governor-General of the Sudan, that is to say—
    1. (i) an increase of two hundred and fifty pounds in the annual allowance; and
    2. (ii) an increase of seven hundred and fifty pounds in the additional allowance.