1996-02-20 TITO C.9.5.
868JUDJ
C
002 066 2067 7.20
CHAPTER II TERMINATION OF SERVICE
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RETIREMENT BENEFITS
Jan. 91
395 (1)
Jan. 91
(2)
June 92
396 (1)
It is the responsibility of Heads of Departments/Grades to ensure that as soon as an officer's date of retirement/ resignation with an eligibility for a deferred pension can be fixed, the Notification of Retirement/Resignation of an Officer (GF 539) is forwarded to the Director of Accounting Services to reach him at least two months before the date of retirement/resignation. For this purpose, as soon as the officer's date of retirement/resignation is known, he should be asked
(a)
(b)
to make the options under Pensions Regulation 23(1)/26(5) and/or 28(1) or Section 24(1) of Pension Benefits Ordinance Cap. 99 as appropriate;. and
to advise the method of payment of his retirement benefits.
He should also be advised that delays in making the options and in providing the payment instructions may delay the payment of his retirement benefits.
A guide to pensions, annual allowances and gratuities is at Annex 2.2 to these Regulations. At Appendix A to Annex 2.2 are notes on "Circumstances in which pension may be suspended, cancelled or reduced" and at Appendix B "Details of the administrative arrangements for the payment of pensions".
Notification of Retirement/Resignation of an Officer (GF 539) must be signed as follows
Rank of Officer
(a) Head of Department
-
To be signed by
Secretary for the Civil Service
(b) Departmental staff :
Head, Deputy Head or Assistant Head of Department.
In
(1) All Departments
(except (11)
below)
addition, a Head of Department may authorize a substantive Chief Executive Officer to sig: in respect of staff whose salary does not exceed the maximum of a Chief Executive Officer; and a substantive Senior Executive Officer to sign in respect of staff whose salary does not exceed the maximum of a Senior Executive Officer.
Amendment No. 71(24)/9-