THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 2ND. JANUARY, 1892.
No. 3.
1. (a.) Except in cases where a right to pension has been previously acknowledged Officers enjoying or sanctioned by the Secretary of State or the Governor in Council, Officers whose whole private practice. time is not given to the public service and professional Officers who are allowed the private practice of their professions, may not be awarded pensions under these Regula- tions. If a pension is granted in any such case the addition for professional or peculiar qualifications in the next following clause referred to shall not as a general rule be made, nor as a general rule shall any fees paid out of the Treasury be included in his salary in computing his pension.
(b.) Save as in this clause excepted, such Officers as in this clause are referred to may not in the case of abolition of office be awarded the pension provided for the case of abolition of office, but every such Officer may receive a pension at such reduced rate as the Secretary of State may see fit in each case to prescribe.
2. In computing the pension of an Officer who on first entering the service was Professional appointed to an office mentioned in the Schedule hereto and retires therefrom or from qualifications. some other office requiring like qualifications, the additions in the said Schedule men- tioned may be made to his period of service: Provided that no such addition shall be made in the case of any Officer who has been transferred to the service of the Colony from Her Majesty's Naval or Military service, and that no addition shall be made which together with the number of years of actual service shall amount to more than thirty- five years.
No. 4.
Governor or Judge.
1. Every public Officer borne on the Fixed Establishment of the Colony who is Public Officer appointed to be Governor of the Colony or to be a Judge of the Supreme Court, and appointed to be who, being a Judge, may not be awarded a Pension under clause 2 of this Minute, may, on his retirement, be awarded the same pension as if he had continued to hold the office which he vacated on such appointment, and as if his retirement were occasioned by ill-health.
2. If there is offered to any such ex-Governor, being under the age of fifty-five years, or to any such ex-Judge, being under the age of fifty-five years, and not having completed seven years' service as a Judge, any office under the Crown either in the Colony or elsewhere which, regard being had as well to the state of his health as to his previous services, such ex-Governor or ex-Judge may be properly called upon to accept, the Secretary of State for the Colonies may suspend either wholly or in part, as he in his absolute discretion may think fit, the pension of such ex-Governor or ex-Judge during his tenure of such office in case of acceptance, or in case of non-acceptance until he attains the age of fifty-five years.
No. 5.
No Judge or other Officer shall have an absolute right to compensation for past Pensions not of services, or to any pension or other allowance under this Minute, nor shall anything right. herein contained limit the right of the Crown to dismiss any Judge or other Officer without compensation.
No. 6.
No pension, compensation, or other retiring allowance shall be granted without the Secretary or State's previous sanction of the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
No. 7.
sanction required.
conduct, &c.
No pension or allowance shall be granted to any public Officer who has not attained Certificates the age of fifty-five years (other than a Governor or Judge of the Supreme Court) required, as to without a certificate from the head of his Department and from two qualified medical practitioners that he is incapable by reason of some infirmity of mind or body of dis- charging the duties of his office, and that such infirmity is likely to be permanent, nor in any case without a certificate from the Head of his Department that he has discharged the duties of his office with such diligence and fidelity as to justify the grant to him of a pension or allowance. When the Officer applying for a pension or allowance is imself the Head of Department, or is a Judge, the certificates required by this section rom the Head of Department must be given by the Governor.
No. 8.
dinary merit.
It shall be lawful for the Secretary of State for the Colonies, in cases of peculiar or Cases of extraor extraordinary merit, in which special services have been rendered altogether in excess and beyond the usual scope of those which the Officer is paid to perform, to sanction the grant by the Governor in Council of pensions or retiring allowances at higher rates