THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 25TH JULY, 1896.
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(d) If at the expiration of five years' service leave is refused on the ground that the Applicant's service cannot then be spared, he shall be allowed leave at the earliest suitable date, and the time elapsing between the expiration of the above mentioned five years' service and the date of his going on leave, shall be calculated towards the period of five years' service to be served by him on his return from such leave. If the time of year at which a period of five years' service expires is on consideration of health unsuitable for leave to be taken, the Applicant may, by permission, go on leave at any time within six months from such expiration of service, and this interval shall count towards his next period of five years' service.
(e) That half pay is granted for the period on leave, and the return passage of the Applicant defrayed. These amounts will be paid on the Applicant's return to the Colony and re-enlistment.
(ƒ) The number of men on leave will be limited at the discretion of His Excellency the
Governor.
(g) On the Applicant's return he will be sworn in under §§ 8 and 13 of Ordinance 14 of
1887, for a further period of five years' service, and reinstated in his relative position. III.-Members of the Force who are drawing allowance for knowledge of English, Hindustani or Chinese will be allowed to draw half the allowance when on half
pay leave.
HONGKONG POLICE.
PENSION REGULATIONS.
The following Regulations, concerning the general conditions upon which Pensions, Superannuation Allow- ances, or other Relief are to be granted, under Section 17 of Ordinance No. 14 of 1887 to Subordinate Officers or Constables of the Police Force, authorized by His Excellency the Governor in Council, this 17th day of July 1896, are substituted for those made by the Governor in Council on the 17th March, 1896, and Gazetted on the 11th April, 1896 :-
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1. Subject to the exceptions and provisions hereinafter contained, a Pension will be granted to any Subordinate Officer or Constable of the Police Force, who has completed fifteen years' service and has attained the age of 45 years, at a rate not exceeding 20/60ths of the Annual pay of his rank, vided he shall have been in receipt of the same for the last three years; otherwise, 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 fifteen years, an addition to the Annual Pension of 1/60th part of the average annual pay of his rank shall be made for each additional year of such service.
2. Any Subordinate Officer or Constable of the Police Force who may be invalided after serving ten complete years and under fifteen years, may (provided that such invaliding be not the consequence of intemperate or vicious habits) be granted a pension not exceeding 15/60th of the average Annual pay of his rank during the past three years' service, and 1/60th for each full and complete year's service after ten years.
3. Any Subordinate Officer or Constable of the Police Force who may be invalided as aforesaid before the completion of ten years' service may,-
(1) If his entire service under the Crown has exceeded ten years, be awarded a pension at the rate of one seven-hundred-and-twentieth of the amount of his annual salary at the date
of such retirement for each calendar month of his service in the Colony, and in every
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such case there may be added, at the discretion of the Governor in Council, in computing the period of the retiring Officer's service in the Colony, a number of months not exceeding-
(a) One-third of the aggregate of his service elsewhere than in the Colony; nor (b) Two-thirds of his service in the Colony.
(2) If his entire service under the Crown has not exceeded ten years, be granted a gratuity not exceeding one month's average pay for the past three years for each complete year's service.
Provided, however, that the pension or gratuity of a Subordinate Officer or Constable, who retires on account of infirmity of body or mind certified by the Colonial Surgeon to have been brought about by his own default or vicious habits, may be reduced by an amount not exceeding one-half of the pension or gratuity to which such Subordinate Officer or Constable would otherwise have been entitled.