sentences:  The initial purpose was quite narrow, namely to persuade the British Government to provide annual pension increases for the HMOCS pensioners to match those given to other civil servants in the Home Civil Service and the Foreign Service in Britain.This would be preferable to relying on a hope that the new overseas governments would continue to award increases as had been the practice before independence.This objective was achieved by the passing in December 1962 of the Pensions (Increase) Act which covered HMOCS pensioners like the others.