Note 384 — Chapter XVII · The Spirit of the Civil Service

Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, March 25, 1903; Mr. Austen Chamberlain, Postmaster General: “The regulation is that all pensionable officers of whatever grade whose conduct, capacity, and efficiency fall below a fair standard shall be called upon to retire at sixty; but retirement at sixty is not enforced in the case of officers whose conduct is good, and who are certified by their superior officers to be thoroughly efficient.”