Power to amend Schedule.
Regulations.
Amendment of Pensions Ordinance.
(Cap. 89.)
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(2) No exemption or modification under subsection (1) shall beco operative unless it has received the prior approval of the Legislative Council signified by resolution.
34. The Chief Secretary may by order published in the Gazette amend the Schedule.
35. (1) The Governor in Council may make regulations providing for-
(a) the grant of pension benefits to officers who are transferred to or from service under the Government from or to other public service;
(b) the factor for the computation of pension on retirement and such
factor may apply to service before 1 July 1987;
(c) the computation of qualifying service;
(d) the service which may be taken into account as qualifying service or pensionable service, which may include qualifying service or pensionable service prior to 1 July 1987, and for deeming an increase in pensionable service in certain circumstances;
(e) the emoluments which may be taken into account for computing
pension benefits;
(ƒ) the determination of highest pensionable emoluments; (g) empowering the Secretary for the Civil Service to amend a Schedule to the regulations containing, and containing only, a list of Scheduled Governments within the meaning of the regulations; (h) the better carrying out of the purpose and provisions of this
Ordinance.
(2) Subject to subsection (3), whenever the Governor in Council is satisfied that it is equitable that any regulation made under subsection (1) should have retrospective effect in order to confer a benefit upon or remove a disability attaching to any person that regulation may be given retrospec- tive effect for that purpose.
(3) No regulation given retrospective effect under subsection (2) shall become operative unless it has received the prior approval of the Legislative Council signified by resolution.
36. The Pensions Ordinance shall be amended as follows- (a) in subsection (1) of section 2-
(Cap. 305.)
(i) by inserting, before the definition of "expatriation pay", the following-
""authorized increase" has the same meaning as in the
Pensions (Increase) Ordinance;
"compensation scheme" means a compensation scheme
approved under section 6A;";
(ii) in the definition of "expatriation pay", by deleting "Hong Kong";
(iii) by deleting the definition of "non-pensionable office" and substituting the following definitions-