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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 20, 1933.
Officer invalided
with under ten years service.
Injury before completion
of 10 years service.
Places where pensions payable.
To whom
and at what rates pensions to be granted.
Commutation
of pension.
26. 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.
27. When an officer has been permanently injured—
(1) in the actual discharge of his duty; and
(2) without his own default; and
(3) by some injury specifically attributable to the nature
of his duties,
and his retirement is thereby necessitated or materially ac- celerated, he may receive in respect of such injury an addition to service for calculating his pension as follows:
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When his capacity to contribute to his support is certified
by three Government medical officers to be—
slightly impaired, not exceeding six years;
impaired, not exceeding twelve years;
materially impaired, not exceeding eighteen years;
totally destroyed, not exceeding twenty four years: Provided that no pension thus increased shall exceed the salary, including pensionable allowances, of his permanent rank at the time of injury.
28. When an officer so injured has less than ten years service and is not entitled to an ordinary pension he may receive in lieu of a gratuity an annual allowance of so many 1/720ths of his salary as the months he has actually served in addition to the number of 1/720ths that may be awarded to him under the preceding regulation.
PART IV.
Russians.
29. All pensions shall, subject to the discretion of the Governor, be payable in Shanghai, or in such other place as the Governor may determine.
30. Subject to the provisions of 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 a rate not exceeding 15/60ths of his salary with an addition of 1/720th for each complete month's service in excess of ten years until the maximum pension of two-thirds of his salary is reached.
31. A commuted payment, calculated at five times the amount of the annual pension, may be granted in lieu of a pension, if the pensioner should be unable to draw his pension at any of the places above mentioned, or, on the application of the grantee, at the discretion of the Governor, but no such capital sum shall ordinarily be paid in any case of retirement on the ground of ill-health. Provided that any commutation made under this regulation shall have the effect of cancelling any option previously made under regulation 11.