I am directed to refer to your letter dated the 6th April last, directing that the Police Pensions Regulations approved by the Secretary of State should be followed, and to remind you in accordance that the discretion in the matter under the Ordinance should not be exercised except in very exceptional cases, and then only subject to the special sanction of the Secretary of State.
3. I am aware that there are no regulations touching upon the question whether service prior to 1862 can count towards pension, but I am of the opinion that s. 27 of Ord. 9 of 1862 implies that constables serving at the date of the Ordinance who had not contributed to the Police Superannuation Fund were not entitled to count their past service for the purpose of claiming pensions under that Ordinance, and s. 37 of that and later ordinances explicitly repeated this.
4. I do not desire to create an inconvenient precedent by granting the special pension awarded to Abbas.
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