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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 9TH FEBRUARY, 1889.
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Period of issuë
Ordinary grant.
With 12 years service before employ.
Completing 12 years' service during employ.
Desertion, Imprisonment, Sickness, &c.
DIVISION III., SECTION I.-Recruiting, Deserters, Service, and Discharge.
III.-Service for Pension.-Colonial Employment.
601. Non-Commissioned Officers in the employment of a Colonial Government, provided they have completed 12 years' service before going into such employment, shall count their time under the Colonial Government as qualifying service up to the date on which they may complete 21 years' total service.
Non-Commissioned Officers who enter on Colonial employment before they have completed 12 years' service shall not be entitled to count their time under the Colonial Government as qualifying service, unless they return to the Imperial Army three years before they have completed 21 years' service.
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DIVISION III., SECTION III.-Pay of Non-Commissioned Officers and Men
employed Regimentally.
IV.-Deferred Pay.
713. Deferred Pay shall be issued to a soldier for 12 years, reckoned from the date from which he reckons service for the purpose of discharge or of transfer to our Army Reserve. But should such soldier be transferred to the Reserve, or become in any way non-effective, within the period of 12 years, Deferred Pay shall not be issued beyond the date of his ceasing to serve with the Colours. Boys enlisted under the Army Service Act of 1847 shall reckon the 12 years from the date on which they attained the age of 18, and boys enlisted under the Acts of 1867 and 1870, and before the 1st April, 1876, from the date on which they attained the age of 17, or from the 1st April, 1876, if they did not attain the ages of 18 and 17 respectively until after that date
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Colonial Employment.
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724. A Non-Commissioned Officer in the employment of a Colonial Government shall receive Deferred Pay for the first 12 years of his service, as provided in Article 713, and subject to the usual conditions as to the issue of Deferred Pay.
725. If a Non-Commissioned Officer in the employment of a Colonial Government bad completed 12 years' service before the date on which he entered on such employ- ment, and was serving in the rank of Sergeant, or in any higher rank, before that date, he shall receive Deferred Pay as provided in Article 715, for the first 21 years of his service.
726. A Non-Commissioned Officer who shall complete 12 years' total service while in Colonial employment shall not receive Deferred Pay for any period in excess of 12 years, unless he returns. to the Imperial Ariny three years before he has completed 21 years' service.
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Forfeiture of Pay.
824. A soldier shall forfeit his pay-
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(a) For every day of absence on desertion or without leave above five days. When such absence is for a period not exceeding five days, the forfeiture may be either enforced or not, at the discretion of the Commanding Officer, unless the soldier has been convicted of the offence by a Court Martial, in which case he shall forfeit his pay absolutely for the day or days of such absence.
(b) For every day of imprisonment
(1) Under sentence for an offence awarded by a Civil Court or Court Martial, or by his Commanding Officer, or by the Commanding Officer of one of our ships.
(2) Under detention on a charge for an offence of which he is after- wards convicted by a Court Martial or by a Civil Court, except when it has been ruled by competent authority that no entry of such conviction by the Civil Court shall be made in the Regimental Defaulter Book.
(3) Under detention on the charge of absence without leave for which he is afterwards awarded imprisonment by his Commanding Officer. (4) Under detention when he shall confess to have been guilty of desertion or fraudulent enlistment, and the forfeiture during the period of such detention shall have been ordered by the competent Military Authority.
(c) For every day on which he is in hospital on account of sickness, certified by the proper Medical Officer attending on him at the hospital to have been caused by an offence under the Army Act, 1881, committed by him.