Pensions not of
right.
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2. If there is offered to any such ex-Governor, being under the age of fifty-five years, or to any such ex-Judge, being under the age of fifty-five years, and not having completed seven years' service as a Judge, any office under the Crown either in the Colony or elsewhere which, regard being had as well to the state of his health as to his previous services, such ex-Governor or ex-Judge may be properly called upon to accep the Secretary of State for the Colonies may suspend either wholly or in part, as he his absolute discretion may think fit, the pension of such ex-Governor or ex-Judg during his tenure of such office in case of acceptaners or in case of uon-acceptance unfil he attains the age of fifty-five years.
No. 5.
No Judge or other Officer shall have an absolute right to compensation for past services, or to any pension or other allowance under this Minute, nor shall anything herein contained limit the right of the Crown to dismiss any Judge or other Officer
ime Shack without compensation.
Secretary of State
No. 6.
No pension, compensation, or other retiring allowance shall be granted without the sanction required previous sanction of the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
Certificates required as to conduct, &
Cases of extraordi nary merit.
Good conduct required.
What service
the
No. 7.
No pension or allowance shall be granted to any public Officer who has not attained agre of fifty-five years (other than a Governor or Judge of the Supreme Court) without a certificate from the Head of his Department and from two qualified medical practitioners that he is incapable by reason of some infirmity of mind or body of dis- charging the duties of his office, and that such infirmity is likely to be permanent, nor in any case without a certificate from the Head of his Department that he has discharged the duties of his office with such diligence and fidelity as to justify the grant to hit of a pension or allowance. When the Officer applying for a pension or allowance himself the Head of a Department, or is a Judge, the certificates required by this section from the Head of a Department must be given by the Governor.
No. 8.
It shall be lawful for the Secretary of State for the Colonies, in cases of peculiar or extraordinary merit. in which special services live been rendered altogether in excess and beyond the usual scope of those which the Officer is paid to perform, to sanction the grant by the Governor in Council of pensions or retiring allowances at higher rates and on more favourable conditions than those which may for the time being he author- ised by this Minute; but, in ordinary cases, the maximum pension or retiring allowance grautable to an Officer under this Minute, or to an Officer entitled to pension or retiring allowance also in respect of service not under this Government from all sources com. bined shall not exceed two-thirds of his say the highest sala such officer at a
“ን Ly time in the cause any.
of his service No. 9.
drawn
1. Pensions, gratuities, and allowances computed at the rates before-mentioned will only be granted in cases of decidedly faithful and meritorious service.
2. Where the fidelity and diligence of the Officer fall short of the first degree of merit, the computation may be made at lower rates.
3. Where the Officer has been guilty of gross negligence, irregularity, or misconduct, no grant will be inade.
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No. 10.
1. The service in respect of which pensions, retiring allowances or gratuities will entitles for pensions. be granted unst be unbroken, except in case where the service has been interrupted by abolition of office, or other temporary suspension of employment not arising from mis- conduct or voluntary resignation.
For Mais Substitute
uwiau ather than yestery the that Establisment on furter half pay will be taken into account in computing pensions or retiring allowances, except that, where the period of service on the Temporary Establishment, such period will be taken into
rule abre service on the Fixed Establishment has been immediately preceded by an unbroken issuad/10 count, Leave of absence or half salary will hereafter only be counted at the rate
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of one month for every two months of such leave, provided that vacation leave, in cases where full skry is not available, shall be counted as though it were leave with foll
3.-Service will be deemed to commence for pension purposes, in the case appointed under instructions received from or through the Secretary of State, and of Cadets, at the date of the despatch of the Secretary of State notifying their nomination. or from the date at which they shall commence to draw salary; and in other cases rom the date specified for that purpose in the letter of appointment to an actually
acant other.
No. 11.
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pension purposes.
1. For the purpose of computing retiring allowances, the salary of the permanent How salary to be appointment held by the Officer at the date of retirement will be taken if he has held computed for such office or an office with the same salary for a period of three years immediately preceding such date; otherwise the average amount of the salary of the permanent appointments held by the Officer during the three years immediately preceding his
retirement will be taken.
2. For the purposes of this clause Salary includes personal allowance, allowance for house rent, estimated value of free quarters, rations, and any fees paid out of the fand any her Treasury by way of salary, but so that the amount to be allowed for house rent or for fungies timal la estinated value of free quarters shall not exceed one sixth, nor the amount to be allowed remuneration for fees one fourth of the whole of the other emoluments of the office,
No. 12.
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Cool Teachers' capitation 1. In case of the abolition of the office of an Officer who is borne on the Fixed Abolition of office. Establishment of the Colony, a temporary pension may be granted to the Officer whose office is abolished, on the condition that he shall hold himself ready to be recalled to service, and with the understanding that he will be re-employed as opportunity offers in preference to new applicants for office.
2. If the Officer whose office is abolished is not qualified for other employment, or if there is no reason in the opinion of the Governor to expect that he can be shortly re- employed, a pension may be granted to him free from the condition as to re-employment mentioned in this clause.
3. If the Officer whose office is abolished is under fifty years of age, the following
may
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pension purposes, that is to say for service of:--
(a.) Twenty years,
(b.) Less than twenty years but not less than fifteen years,
(c.) Less than fifteen years but not less than ten years,
(d) Less than ten years but not less than five years, (e.) Less than five years,
..te years.
7 years. 5 years. 3 years.
1 year.
4. No addition shall be made under this clause to an Officer's period of service so
as to cutitle him to a higher pension than he would have been entitled to had he been retained in the service until he attained the age of sixty years.
No. 13.
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other public
If any pensioner under this Minute is appointed to an office under the Crown Pension to abate on either in the Colony or elsewhere, then, during his tenure of such office, so much only pensioner's obtaining (if any) of his pension or compensation allowance shall be paid to him as with the employment. emoluments of such office makes up an amount equal to the emoluments of the office which he held at the date of the grant of his pension or compensation allowance.
No. 14.
elsewhere than in
1. Subject to the provisions of this Minute, every public Officer (other than a Where the Officer Judge of the Supreme Court) who, having been borne on the Fixed Establishment of has served the Crown the Colony for a period of at least twelve calendar mouths, leaves, the service of the the Colony, Colony for other service under the Crown and whose aggregate service under the Crown in the Colony and elsewhere would have cutitled him, had it been wholly in the Colony. to a pension or retiring allowance under this Minute, shall, on his altiinate retirement from the service of the Crown, be entitled to a pension at the rate of one seven-hundred- and-twentieth of the amount of his annual salary at the date of his so leaving the service of the Colony as aforesaid for each calendar month of his service in the Colony.
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