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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 11TH APRIL, 1896.
the Pension shall be calculated upon the average amount of pay received by such person during the three years next preceding the commencement of such Pension. Further, for every full and complete year's service after ten years, an addition to the Annual Pension of 1/60 part of the average annual pay of his rank shall be made for each additional year of such service.
5. Extra pay for acting appointments will in no case be taken into consideration, but good conduct allowance shall be included with pay in the calculation of Peusion or Gratuity.
6. Time spent on leave with half salary, provided it does not exceed 1/6th of resident service, shall be reckoned for Pension purposes at the rate of one month for every two months of such leave, but absence without salary or beyond 1/6th of resident service shall not be reckoned at all.
7. All Pensions granted shall be payable in Hongkong or London, or in the principal towns of British India.
8. Full Pensions or Gratuities will be granted only on the Applicant's conduct having been uniformly good.
9. Should the Applicant's conduct not have been uniformly good, a modified Pension or Gratuity will be granted. Should his conduct have been decidedly bad, no Pension or Gratuity will be paid.
10. A Commuted Payment, calculated at five times the amount of the Annual Pension, may be granted in lieu of a Pension, if the applicant should be unable to draw his Pension at any of the places before mentioned, or on the application of the Grantee, at the discretion of His Excellency the Governor.
11. If any person receiving a Pension under these Regulations should be appointed to fill any office in any Public Department, such Pension shall cease to be paid for any period subsequent to such appointment if the annual amount of the profits of the office to which he shall be appointed shall be equal to those of the office formerly held by him; and in case it shall not be equal to those of his former office, then no more of such Pension shall be paid to him than what with the salary of his new appointment shall be equal to the profits of his former office.
12. A Pension is granted only on the condition that it becomes forfeited, and may be withdrawn by His Excellency the Governor, in any of the following cases :—
(a) On the conviction of the Grantee for any indictable offence.
(b) On his knowingly associating with thieves or suspected persons.
(c) On his refusing to give information and assistance to the Police whenever in his power, for the detection and apprehension of Criminals, and for the suppression of any dis- turbance of the public peace.
(d) If he enter into or continue to carry on any business, occupation, or employment, which shall be, in the opinion of His Excellency the Governor, disgraceful in itself or inju- rious to the public, or in which he shall make use of the fact of his former employ- ment in the Police in a manner which His Excellency the Governor considers to be discreditable and improper.
13. It shall, however, be in the discretion of the Governor in Council to grant a special rate of Pension to any Subordinate Officer or Constable of the Police Force who may be compelled to quit the Public Service by reason of severe bodily injury, occasioned without his own fault, in the discharge of his public duty.or whose retirement may be proved to have been accelerated by such injuries.
In every such case the amount of pension shall be made to vary partly in proportion to the num ber of years served by the injured man, and partly in proportion to the severity of the injury and the date of its occurrence. The portion of the pension earned by length of service shall be calculated at the rate of 1/60th of the salary of the Officer at the time when he retires, for each year of service then completed by him, whether the number of years served be more or less than 10, but no number of years service shall be allowed to give a claim to pension of more than 40/60th in respect of service only; and in every such case a Medical Certificate shall be furnished stating:-
(a) Whether the capacity of the Officer affected to contribute towards his own support is
slightly impaired, impaired, materially impaired, or totally destroyed, and
(b) Whether such incapacity is likely to be
permanent.
(c) Whether the retirement is to be attributed solely and immediately to the injuries received. An addition to the pension of the Officer, on account of the injury may then be made on the following scale :-
(a) When the capacity is certified to be slightly impaired not exceeding 6/60ths of the pay
of the Officer at the time he receives such injury.
(6) When impaired not exceeding 12/60th ;
(e) When materially impaired not exceeding 18/60ths;
(d) When totally destroyed not exceeding 24/60s.
But in no case shall the total amount of the pension exceed the full amount of the pay of the sufferer at the time when the injury occurred.