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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 28, 1933.
"Pensionable service" means, in relation to а Colony, service in the capacity of a teacher in respect of which a pension, allowance, or gratuity may be granted under the Colonial Scheme.
2. Extension of English Act:-(1) Pensionable service in a Colony shall, for the purposes of the English Act. be treated in the same manner as service in Scotland which is approved external service under Section 13 of that Act, except that--
(i) the proviso to paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of that Section (which relates to the calculation of average salary) shall not have effect; and
(ii) unless the Board otherwise determine as respects the Colony concerned, paragraphs (d) and (e) of subsection (2) of that Section shall have effect as if pensionable service in the Colony were service of the kind described in paragraph (b) instead of paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of that Section.
(2) Where a teacher ceases to serve in pensionable service in a Colony at any age lower than sixty years and thereupon becomes entitled to receive a pension under the Colonial Scheme-
(i) if the teacher so elects, that lower age shall, for the purpose of the grant of superannuation allowances at that age, be substituted for the age of sixty years in the application to him of subsection (1) of Section 3 of the English Act; and
(ii) if by virtue of these arrangements the teacher becomes entitled, either by election as aforesaid or on the ground of infirmity, to receive superannuation allowances under the English Act at the said lower age, those allowances shall be at a reduced rate according to the scale set out in the Second Schedule hereto or (if the lower age is not specified in the scale) at such reduced rate as the Board may
determine.
3. Extension of Colonial Schemes :-English pensionable. service shall be treated as public service for the purposes of the pension laws of a Colony.
4. Decision of Questions:-The Board shall accept as final any decision by the authority administering a Colonial Scheme with regard to a teacher's service in the Colony, and any such authority shall accept as final any decision by the Board with regard to a teacher's service in England or Wales.
5. Date of Operation :-These arrangements shall have effect for each Colony as from the date specified opposite the name of that Colony in the First Schedule hereto, and shall not apply with respect to any pension, allowance or gratuity which became payable, or which might if these arrangements had been in operation have become payable, before that date.