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Enclosure 1.
HONGKONG PENSION MINUTE,
REVISED DRAFT RULES, 1887.
No. 1.
139
pensions to be
1. Subject to the Provisions of this Minate, every Public Officer borne on the Fixed Persons fa waom Establishment of the Colony (other than a Judge of the Supreme Court, or Members of and hit what tha The Police Force who are entitled to retiring allowances under Ordinance 14 of 1885 anted.
who has served ten years or upwards, and whose annual salary exceeds $240, strait be, entitled, on his retirement, to a pension at the rate of fifteen-sixtieths of such salaEGE 12 MAR BRY with an addition of one-sixtieth in respect of each complete year of such service in excess of ten, until the maximum of forty-sixtieths is reached.
2. No Officer whose annual salary does not exceed $240 shall be entitled to u pension, but a gratuity or compassionate allowance may be granted in special cases of long and faithful service.
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3. No Officer shall be entitled to a pension in respect of any service under the of sixteen years, nor in respect of his service in any of the following capacities, viz : Private Secretary or Aide-de-Camp to the Governor; Clerk to a Judge of the Supreme Court, unless in the permanent Civil Service; Apprentice in a public department; Normal Student or Pupil Teacher.
4. Every Officer otherwise qualified for a pension who has not completed ten years' service shall be entitled to a gratuity at the rate of half a month's salary for each com- plete six months of service.
5. An Officer who has been transferred to or from the service of the Crown in this Colony from or to the service of the Crown elsewhere will not be entitled to a pension under this clause, but his case will be dealt with under clause 14 of this Minute, provided always that the case of any such Officer who, having been so transferred to the service of the Colony, has served in the Colony for a period of ten years and upwards imme- diately prior to his ultimate retirenout from the service of the Crown, may be dealt with under this clause instead of under clause nine.
No. 2.
1. Subject as aforesaid, every Judge of the Supreme Court who has served as a Fensions of Judges. Judge for seven years or upwards shall be entitled on his retirement to a pension at
the rate of fifteen-sixtieths of his salary, with an addition of two-sixtieths in respect of each year of such service in excess of seven, until twenty-nine-sixtieths is reached, and with the further addition of one-sixtieth in respect of each year of such service in excess of fourteen, until the maximum of forty-sixtieths is reached.
2. A Judge who was at the date of his appointment to the Bench borne on the Fixed Establishment of the Colony shall be entitled, at his option, either to a pension computed in accordance with the scale set forth in paragraph I of this clause, for the period of his service as Judge, or to a pension computed at ordinary pension rates for the whole period of his service, whether as Judge or otherwise.
5. In the event of a Judge who was at the date of his appointinent as a Judge borne on the Fixed Establishment of the Colony, retiring before he has completed seven years' service as a Judge, his case will be dealt with under clause 4 of this Minute.
No. 3.
In computing the pension of an Officer (other than a Judge of the Supreme Court) Professional whose office requires for its due performance scientific or other like qualifications which qualifications. have not been acquired in the public service, and who has been prohibited from the private practice of his profession, the following additions may be made to his period of service, that is to say :-
(b.) In the case of an Officer whose annual salary exceeds $1,800,
(.) In the case of an Officer whose annual salary does not exceed
$1,800,
5 years.
but does not exceed $3,600,
7 years.
(c.) In the case of an Officer whose annual salary exceeds $3,600,... 10 years.
No. 4.
Governor or Judge,
1. Every public Officer borne on the Fixed Establishment of the Colony who is rublic Oficer appointed to be Governor of the Colony or to be a Judge of the Supreme Court, and appointed to be who, being a Judge, is not entitled to a Pension under clause 2 of this Minute, shall, on his retirement, be entitled to the same pension as if he had continued to hold the office which he vacated on such appointment, and as if his retirement were occasioned by ill-health.