THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 7TH JULY, 1894.
service in the Colony an addition may be made thereto which shall bear a like proportion to five years as his service in the Colony bears to the whole period of his employment in tropical climates; provided that no such addition shall be made unless such officer has been employed for ten years in all in tropical climates; and a further addition proportionate to his total public service may be made in respect of the grant if any allowable under clause 3, paragraph 2; provided also that such additions shall in no case be greater than would make his total service under the Crown forty years.
2. Subject as aforesaid, every public Officer (other than a Judge of the Supreme Court) who, having been in the service of the Crown elsewhere than in the Colony, is transferred from such service to the Fixed Establishment of the Colony, and who in respect of his aggregate service in the Colony and elsewhere might have been awarded, had it been wholly in the Colony, a pension or retiring allowance under this Minute, may, on his retirement from the service of the Colony, if he at the same time retires from the service of the Crown, and if he had served for a period of at least twelve months in the Colony, 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 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 (6) Two-thirds of his service in the Colony; nor
(c) In any case eighty-four months.
3. Subject as aforesaid every Judge of the Supreme Court who is transferred to or from the service of the Colony from or to other service under the Crown and is not entitled to a pension under clause 2 of these Regulations shall if his aggregate service under the Crown in this Colony and elsewhere would have entitled him had it been wholly in this Colony to a pension under that clause be entitled on his ultimate retirement to a pension at the rate of two seven-hundred-and-twentieths of the amount of his annual salary at the date of his retirement (if he ultimately retires as a Judge of the Supreme Court of this Colony) or at the date of his being so transferred from the service of this Colony for each month of his service as a Judge in this Colony together with a pension for his service in any other capacity in this Colony calculated as under paragraphs (1) or (2) of this clause.
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4. Subject as aforesaid every Officer (other than a Judge of the Supreme Court) who Service in Straits is transferred to or from the service of the Colony from or to the service of the Straits Settlements and in Settlements or of a Ruler of any Native State in the Malay Peninsula which is or was while continuous for such Officer served there under the protection of the British Government and administered pension. by an Officer appointed by the Governor of the Straits Settlements and whose aggregate service in the Colony and in the Straits Settlements or such Native State or States would have· entitled him had it been wholly in the Colony to a pension under this minute shall on his ultimate retirement from service if he has served for a period of at least twelve months in the Colony be entitled to a pension of such an amount as shall bear the same proportion to the amount of pension to which he would have been entitled had his service been wholly in the Colony as the aggregate amount of the salary drawn by him from the Colonial Treasury during his service in the Colony shall bear to the total sum made up of such aggregate amount as last aforesaid and the aggregate amount of the salary drawi by him from the Treasury or Treasuries of the Straits Settlements or any such Native State or States during his service therein: Provided always that such transfer was made with the approval of the Governor in Council and that the salary so drawn by him whilst in the service of any such Native Ruler was fixed with the approval of the Governor of the Straits Settlements.
No. 16.
served fifteen years
In the case of an Officer who is not qualified for a pension or retiring allowance Allowance to under this Minute but has continuously served on the Temporary Establishment of the Officers who have Colony for fifteen years or upwards, and is at the date of his retirement in receipt of a on the temporary salary exceeding $240 per annum, a monthly allowance may be granted to such Officer establishment. not exceeding three-fourths of the pension which might have been awarded to him had he been employed on the Fixed Establishment; provided that when an Officer has been transferred from the Fixed to the Temporary Establishment he shall be entitled, either (a) to count his service on the Temporary Establishment as though it were service on the Fixed Establishment, at the salary which he received immediately prior to such transfer, or (b) to count his service on the Fixed Establishment as though it were service on the Temporary Establishment, and to take the benefit of this clause accordingly. And in the case of an Officer on the Temporary Establishment whose salary does not exceed $240 per annum, or of an Officer paid out of an open vote who is not on either the