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Pensions.
[r. 31 cont.] pensionable office in which he has not been confirmed, may be granted on retirement a pension of the same amount as the additional pension which might be granted to him under paragraph (1) if his office were a pensionable office and he had been confirmed therein.
Commutation.
Conditions
of pension.
(3) If an officer proceeding by a route approved by the Governor to or from the Colony at the commencement or termination of his service therein, or a period of leave therefrom, is permanently injured as a result of damage to vessel, aircraft or vehicle in which he is travelling, or of any violence directed against such vessel, aircraft or vehicle, and the Governor is satisfied that such damage or act is attributable to circumstances arising out of war in which His Majesty may be engaged, such officer shall be deemed for the purposes of this regulation to have been injured in the circumstances described in paragraph (1).
(4) An officer who is permanently injured while travelling by air in pursuance of official instructions shall be deemed to have been injured in the circumstances detailed in sub-paragraphs (a) and (c) of paragraph (1) Provided that in such a case and if sub-paragraph (b) is also satisfied the rates of pension prescribed in that paragraph shall be seventy-five six-hundredths; one hundred and fifty six-hundredths; two hundred and twenty-five six-hundredths and three-hundred six-hundredths respectively.
(5) The provisions of regulation 23 shall not apply to a pension granted under this regulation.
32. In lieu of the grant of a pension or annual allowance there may, with the approval of the Governor, be granted to an officer if he intends to reside in India or in China, a capital sum equal to the amount of five annual payments, but no such capital sum shall ordinarily be paid in any case of retirement on the ground of ill-health: Provided that for the purposes of this regulation such annual payments shall be the remaining portions after deduction of the annual contribution, if any, due in respect of widows and orphans pension.
33. It shall be a condition of the grant of every pension or other allowance that the Governor in Council may cancel
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