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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 9
Abolition of office.
16. (1) If an officer holding a pensionable office and having not less than ten years pensionable service is retired from the service in consequence of the abolition of his office, or for the purpose of retrenchment or of facilitating improve- ment in the organisation of the department to which he belongs by which greater efficiency or economy can be effected, he may be granted a temporary pension on condition that he shall be liable to be recalled to service in this Colony : Such pension shall be at the rate of the number of seven- hundred-and-twentieths (720ths) of the officer's pensionable emoluments exceeding the number of completed months of his pensionable service by the numbers following, that is to say, where his service—
(a) is not less than twenty years
120
(b) is less than twenty years but is not less than
fifteen years
84
:
(c) is less than fifteen years but is not less than
ten years
60
Allowance
for injured officers.
Provided that if such officer is not qualified for other employ- ment in the service of this Colony, or if there is not reason in the opinion of the Governor to expect that he can be shortly re-employed, a pension as aforesaid may be granted to him free from the said condition.
(2) If an officer holding a pensionable office and having less than ten years pensionable service is retired as mentioned in paragraph (1) of this regulation he may be granted a gratuity of one-twelfth of a month's pensionable emoluments for each month of the officer's pensionable service, with a fifty per cent. addition thereto.
(3) No pension shall be granted under this regulation exceeding in amount the pension for which the officer would have been eligible if he had continued to hold his office and if upon an incremental scale had continued to draw normal increments until he reached the age at which he might be required to retire, or in any case exceeding the limit prescribed in section 11 of the Ordinan
17.-(1) Where a person employed in the public service of this Colony has been permanently injured-
(a) in the actual discharge of his duty; and
(b) without his own fault; and
(c) by some injury specifically attributable to the nature of his duty;
and his retirement is thereby necessitated or materially accelerated, he may be granted in respect of such injury, in addition to any pension or allowance granted under these regulations, an annual allowance at the rate of the proportion of his actual pensionable emoluments at the date of his injury appropriate to his case as shown in the following table:
Where his capacity to contribute to his support is- slightly impaired.........sixty seven-hundred-and-
impaired...
twentieths (60/-720ths),
.one hundred and twenty seven-
hundred-and-twentieths (120/720ths).