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TITLE.
PREAMBLE.
Sections 11 and 17 of Ordinance No. 9 of 1862 repealed, except,
Governor in Council may regulate the right to pensions,
etc., subject as above mentioned.
Pension may be revoked if recipient afterwards discovered to have been guilty of corrupt practice in execution of his office.
Commencement of Ordinance.
ORDINANCE No. 9 OF 1868.
Police Pensions.
No. 9 of 1868.
An Ordinance for amending the Law relating to the Granting of Pensions and other Allowances to the Police Force.
[23rd May, 1868.]
WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the Law relating to the granting of retiring pensions and other allowances to members of the Police Force; Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. Sections 11 and 12 of Ordinance No. 9 of 1862 shall be repealed from the time that this Ordinance comes into operation except as to any right acquired thereunder by any officers or men whose services may have been accepted by the Government for a second period of five years, as mentioned in the said sections hereby repealed.
2. Subject to the provision hereinbefore contained, it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from time to time to regulate the general conditions upon which, and the manner in which pensions, superannuation allowances, or other relief, are to be granted to members of the Police Force and to determine in each particular case of the Police Force, whether there shall or shall not be granted to any member of the Police Force, a pension, superannuation allowance, or other relief, and in the event of the Governor in Council determining that there shall be granted to any member of the Police Force, pension, superannuation allowance, or other relief to further determine the amount to be paid in respect thereof and the terms on which and the manner in which the same shall be paid.
3. If at any time after the granting of a pension whether now existing or hereafter to be granted to any member of the Police Force it be proved to the satisfaction of the Governor in Council that the person to whom such pension may have been granted had been guilty of any corrupt practices in the execution of his office either by receiving bribes or by inducing or compelling payment directly or indirectly of any valuable consideration to himself or to any other party or by otherwise acting corruptly in the execution of or under color of his office as a member of the Police, then in every such case it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to revoke and annul the grant of such pension and no claim to any further payment on account of a pension declared to be revoked as aforesaid shall be valid.
4. This Ordinance shall commence and take effect on such day as shall hereafter be fixed by proclamation under the hand of the Governor.
[In force from 6th June, 1868, under proclamation of the same date. Disallowance proclaimed 17th October, 1868: Repealed by Ordinance No. 8 of 1869.]