ORDINANCE No. 9 of 1862.
Police Force.
8. Inspectors and other subordinate officers and constables shall before appointment, be examined by the Captain Superintendent and Colonial Surgeon, and having been so examined and approved of, shall go before a Police Magistrate of the Colony and answer the questions, and subscribe and take the oath or make the declaration contained in the schedule hereto annexed, marked B.
9. Every Inspector or other subordinate officer and constable to be appointed, shall engage and bind himself to serve in the Police Force for the term of five years, during which term he shall not be at liberty to resign his office or to withdraw himself from the duties thereof, except as is hereinafter provided.
10. Whenever any inspector, sergeant, or constable of the Police Force shall be desirous to leave the Force at the termination of his service of five years, he shall be at liberty to do so, upon his giving to the Captain Superintendent three months' previous notice of his intention so to do; and he shall be thereupon entitled to a free passage from Hongkong to the port nearest to the place at which he may have been engaged for service in the Force, or in lieu thereof or in case he shall have been engaged in Hongkong, he shall be entitled to a sum equal to three months' pay of the rank to which at the time he may belong. [Repealed by Ordinances No. 9 of 1868 (disallowed) and by No. 8 of 1869 except as to any right acquired.]
11. In case any inspector, sergeant, or constable, who shall have completed the period of service for which he had engaged, shall be desirous of continuing in the Police Force, he shall be at liberty to engage and bind himself for a further term of five years on the same terms and conditions, and in like manner as is provided by section 9. [Repealed by Ordinance No. 9 of 1868 which was disallowed.]
12. Whenever any inspector, sergeant or constable shall have completed the full term of service of ten years in the Police Force, he shall be entitled in addition to the bonus or passage money mentioned in section 10, to an annual pension of fifteen-sixtieths of the annual pay of his rank, and also for every full and complete year's service after ten years, to an addition to the annual pension of one-sixtieth, in respect of each additional year of such service; and such pension shall be computed upon the amount of the annual pay enjoyed by the person retiring at the time of his retirement: Provided he shall have been in the receipt of the same for at least three years; otherwise the pension shall be calculated upon the average amount of pay received by such person for the three years next preceding the commencement of such pension. Provided always, that His Excellency the Governor shall and may grant superannuation allowance or a fixed sum by way of compensation to any inspector, sergeant, or constable of the Force, who shall be disabled for further service by reason of wounds or injuries received in the actual execution of his duty. [Repealed by Ordinances No. 9 of 1868 (disallowed) and by No. 8 of 1869 except as to any right acquired.]
13. The Captain Superintendent shall from time to time, subject to the approval of His Excellency the Governor, frame such orders and regulations as he shall deem expedient for the general government and discipline of the Police Force.
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Officers and constables to be examined.
Officers and constables to be engaged for five years.
Bonus at end of five years' service in Force.
Power to renew service in Force for further period.
Retiring pensions.
Rules for government and discipline of Force.