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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 2ND NOVEMBER, 1895.
How salary to be "eo uputed for
persion purposes.
4. Notwithstanding anything hereinbefore contained a period not exceeding one year during which an officer is absent on leave without salary such leave being granted on grounds of public policy may be counted for the purpose of this clause as service on full pay.
No. 11.
1. For the purpose of computing retiring allowances, the salary of the permanent appointment held by the officer at the date of retirement will be taken if he has held such office or an office with the same salary for a period of three years immediately preceding such date; otherwise the average amount of the salary of the permanent appointments held by the officer during the three years immediately preceding his retirement will be taken.
2. For the purpose of this clause Salary includes personal allowance, allowance for house rent, estimated value of free quarters, rations, and any other unquestionable remuneration for personal service and any fees paid out of the Treasury by way of salary, but so that the amount to be allowed for house rent or for estimated value of free quarters shall not exceed one-sixth, nor the amount to be allowed for fees one-fourth of the whole of the other emoluments of the office.
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No. 12.
Abolition of office.
1. In case of the abolition of the office of an officer who is borne on the Fixed Establishment of the Colony, a temporary pension may be granted to the officer whose office is abolished, on the condition that he shall hold himself ready to be recalled to service, and with the understanding that he will be re-employed as opportunity offers in preference to new applicants for office.
2. If the officer whose office is abolished is not qualified for other employment, or if there is no reason in the opinion of the Governor to expect that he can be shortly re- employed, a pension may be granted to him free from the condition as to re-employment mentioned in this clause.
3. In the case of an officer whose office is abolished his pension shall be at the rate of the number of sixtieths of his salary exceeding the number of the completed years of his service by the numbers following (that is to say) :-
(a) In the case of an officer who has served twenty-years, (b) In the case of an officer who has served less than twenty years
but not less than fifteen years,
.....10
7
(c) In the case of an officer who has served less than fifteen years
but not less than ten years,
5
(d) In the case of an officer who has served less than ten years
but not less than five years,
3
Additional allow- ace grantable in cases of retirement in consequence of injuries received.
(e) In the case of an officer who has served less than five years, 1
4. No addition shall be made under this clause to an officer's period of service so as to entitle him to a higher pension than he would have been entitled to had he been retained in the service until he attained the age of sixty years.
No. 13.
1. Where a public officer has been permanently injured--
(a) in the actual discharge of his duty and
(b) without his own default and
(c) by some injury specifically attributable to the nature of his duty
and his retirement is thereby necessitated or materially accelerated an annual allowance may be granted to him in addition to any pension which he may be awarded not exceeding the undermentioned portion of his salary and emoluments at the date of the injury, viz. :-
When his capacity to contribute to his support is-
Slightly impaired,
Impaired,.
Materially impaired,
Total destroyed,...
..Five-sixtieths.
.Ten sixticths.
..Fifteen-sixtieths. ..Twenty-sixtieths.
Provided that no such allowance shall together with the pension exceed fifty- sixtieths of his salary and emoluments at the date of the injury.