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10. Should the Applicant's conduct not have been uniformly good, a modified Pension or Gratuit will be granted. Should his conduct have been decidedly bad, no Pension or Gratuity will be paid.
11. A Commuted Payment, calculated at five times the amount of the Annual Pension, may la granted in lieu of a Pension, if the applicant should be unable to draw his Pension at any of the plac before mentioned, or on the application of the Grantee, at the discretion of His Excellency the Governor.
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12. If any person receiving a Pension under these Regulations should be appointed to fill office in any Public Department, such Pension shall cease to be paid for any period subsequent to (1211)-16857–6000-7-91 such appointment if the annual amount of the profits of the office to which be shall be appointed shall be equal to those of the office formerly held by him; and in case it shall not be equal to those of his former office, then no more of such Pension shall be paid to him than what with the salary of his new appointment shall be equal to the profits of his former office.
13. A Pension is granted only on the condition that it becomes forfeited, and may be withdrawn by His Excellency the Goveruor, in any of the following cases :--
(a.) On the conviction of the Grantee for any indictable offence.
(b.) On his knowingly associating with thieves or suspected persons.
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(e.) On his refusing to give information and assistance to the Police whenever in his
for the detection and apprehension of Criminals, and for the suppression of any dis.. turbance of the public peace.
(d.) If he enter into or continue to carry on any business, occupation, or employment, which
shall be, in the opinion of His Excellency the Governor, disgraceful in itself or inju rious to the public, or in which he shall make use of the fact of his former employ ment in the Police in a manner which His Excellency the Governor considers to be discreditable and improper.
14. It shall, however, be in the discretion of the Governor in Council to grant a special rate of pension to any Subordinate Officer or Constable of the Police Force who may be compelled to quit the Public Service by reason of severe bodily injury, occasioned without his own fault, in the discharge of his public duty or whose retirement may be proved to have been accelerated by such injuries.
In every such case the amount of pension shall be male to vary partly in proportion to the number of years served by the injured man, and partly in proportion to the severity of the injury and the date of its occurrence. The port on of the pension earued by length of service shall be calculated at the rate of 1/60th of the salary of the Officer at the time when he retires, for each year of service thes completed by him, whether the number of years served be more or less than 10, but no number of years service shall be allowed to give a claim to pension of more than 40/60s in respect of servic only; and in every such case a Medical Certificate shall be furnished stating:
(a.) Whether the capacity of the Officer affected to contribute towards his own support is
slightly impaired, impaired, materially impaired, or totally destroyed, and
(b.) Whether such incapacity is likely to be permanent.
(c.) Whether the retirement is to be attributed solely and inmediately to the injuries receivel,
An addition to the pension of the Officer, on account of the injury may then be made on the following scale:
(a.) When the capacity is certified to be slightly impaired not exceeding 6/60th of the pay
of the Officer at the time he receives such injury.
(b.) When impaired not exceeding 12/60ths;
(e) When materially impaired not exceeding 18/60th ;
(d.) When totally destroyed not exceeding 24/60TM.
But in no case shall the total amount of the pension exceed the full amount of the pay of the sufferer at the time when the injury occurred.
15. When Police Officers are transferred to some other civil employment under the Government of Hongkong or to any other public employment with the sanction of the Governor, they will not, the absence of any special arrangement to the contrary, retain a claim to pension under these Regula tions but will be dealt with under the ordinary regulations for civil servants or under such special arrangements as may be made at the time of the transfer.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
HONGKONG.
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1891.
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