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Pension Benefits (Judicial Officers) Regulations
[1988 Ed.
[Subsidiary]
PART IV
GENERAL
General rules as to qualifying service and pensionable service
13. (1) Subject to these regulations, qualifying service shall be the inclusive period between the date on which an officer begins to draw salary in respect of public service and the date of his leaving public service, without deduction of any period during which he has been absent on leave.
(2) Only service under the Government shall be taken into account as qualifying service in respect of an officer, other than an officer who is transferred to or from service under the Government from or to other public service.
(3) No period which is not qualifying service shall be taken into account as pensionable service.
(4) No period during which an officer was not in the public service shall be taken into account either as qualifying service or as pensionable service.
(5) Any period during which an officer, who is in the public service, is seconded to service which is not public service may, with the approval of the Governor, be counted as qualifying service and pensionable service.
Continuity of service
14. (1) Except as otherwise provided in these regulations, only continuous service shall be taken into account as qualifying service or as pensionable service.
(2) Where an officer has more than one period of pensionable service, every such period shall be taken into account separately for the purposes of computing pension benefits.
Military service to count for pension benefits
15. (1) Where an officer has served with Her Majesty's Forces in time of war and before so serving was employed in public service the following provisions apply-
(a) during the period of that service with Her Majesty's Forces, including any period after the termination of the war, (in this regulation referred to as military service), he shall be deemed for the purposes of the Ordinance and these regulations to have been on leave on full salary from the public service in which he was last employed, and to have held the substantive office last held by him in that service prior to his military service;
(b) during any period between his leaving public service for the purpose of serving with Her Majesty's Forces and the date of his commencing military service he shall, for the purposes of the Ordinance and these regulations, be deemed to be on leave without salary, not granted on...