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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 20, 1933.
Auditor to be supplied
with particulars.
the intendment of the first paragraph of this regulation then the decision of the Governor in Council thereon shall be final and conclusive:
Provided further that any pension, gratuity or allowance ceasing as aforesaid shall be restored with retrospective effect in the case of a person who, after conviction, at any time receives a free pardon. For the purpose of this regulation the enduring of the punishment to which any person has been or may be sentenced shall not be deemed to be or to have the effect of a free pardon :
And provided further that where a pension, gratuity or allowance ceases for any reason aforesaid the Secretary of State for the Colonies or, if the grantee is resident in the Colony then the Governor in Council with the approval of the Secretary of State, may cause all or any part of the moneys to which the grantee would have been entitled by way of pen- sion, gratuity or allowance during the remainder of the grantee's life or during any shorter period or periods, either continuous or discontinuous, to be paid to or applied for the benefit of all or any exclusive of the others of the following persons, that is to say, the dependents of the grantee, and the grantee himself if and when his sentence, if any as aforesaid, shall have expired, in such proportions, if there be more than one recipient or beneficiary, and manner and subject to such conditions, qualifications and restrictions as the Secretary of State or the Governor in Council with such approval as afore- said, as the case may be, may see fit to direct and impose. Any such directions, conditions, qualifications and restrictions may in like manner be revised, altered, added to or withdrawn at any time and from time to time.
17. The Colonial Treasurer shall furnish the Auditor with the usual paper of particulars of every pension granted under these regulations, as soon as possible after the pension has been awarded, in support of the first payment of such pension.
PART II.
Place where pension payable.
To whom
and at what rates
pensions to be granted.
Officer invalided with under
ten years
service.
Europeans.
18. All pensions shall, subject to the discretion of the Governor, be payable in London.
19. Subject to these regulations, every officer who has served in the Police Force for ten years or upwards may be awarded on his retirement a pension at the rate of 14/50ths of his salary with an addition of 1/600th in respect of each complete month of service in excess of ten years and with a further addition of 1/600th in respect of each complete month of service beyond 20 years until the maximum pension of two-thirds of his salary is reached.
20. An officer who retires on account of infirmity of mind or body and who has not completed the minimum period of service in the Police Force qualifying for a pension may be granted a gratuity not exceeding five times the annual amount of the pension which might have been granted had there been no qualifying period.