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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 9,
Pensiouable servico
Deduction from service on failure
to pass
examination.
Service to be unbroken.
Service p: ior
to break
wher taken
4. For the purpose of computing the amount of a pension or gratuity to be granted to an officer the following periods, subject to any deduction to be made under regulation 5 or 8, shall be taken into account as pensionable service-
(a) the periods during which he has been on duty;
(b) any period during which he was proceeding to this Colony on first appointment and in respect of which he was paid half salary from the funds of this Colony;
(c) any period during which he has been absent from duty on leave with full or half salary;
(d) any period during which he has been absent from duty on leave without salary, granted on grounds of public policy with the approval of the Secretary of State, and during which he has not qualified for pension, gratuity or other allow- ance in respect of other public service:
(e) any period during which an officer shall have been seconded for service under a public body with the approval of the Governor in Council.
5. If an officer fails to pass such examinations as on his first appointment to the service of this Colony are pre- scribed for him, within the time prescribed, the period between the prescribed date for passing such examinations and the actual date of passing may, if the Governor so directs, be deducted from the officer's term of service for the purpose of computing any pension, gratuity or other allowance to be granted to him.
6. (1) Service in respect of which pensions, gratuities, or other allowances may be granted must be unbroken, except in cases where the service has been interrupted by abolition of office or other temporary suspension of employment not arising from misconduct or voluntary resignation.
(2) Service prior to break of service shall be taken into account for pension, gratuity, or other allowance together with service subsequent to such break, if the whole of the into account. intervening period has with the previous sanction of the Sec- retary of State or of the Governor in Council been spent in other public service.
Acting
service.
Non-pension- able service when to count.
7. Where an officer has performed acting service in a pensionable office in this Colony, the period of such service may be taken into account as pensionable service :
Provided that-
(a) the period of such acting service has not been taken into account as part of the officer's own pensionable service in other public service;
(b) this period of service is immediately followed by ser- vice in a pensionable office in this Colony.
8. Where immediately preceding service in a pension- able office there has been an unbroken period of service in a non-pensionable office or of service paid for out of an open vote, or both, the whole of such period or periods may be taken into account for the purposes of these regulations: