(d) If at the expiration of five years' service leave is refused on the ground that the Applicant, service cannot then be spared, he shall be allowed leave at the earliest suitable date and the time clapsing between the expiration of the above mentioned five years' service and the date of his going on leave, shall be calculated towards the period of five years' service to be served by him on his return from such leave. If the time of year at which a period of five years' service expires is on consideration of health unsuitable for leave to be taken, the Applicant may, by permission, go on lea at any time within six months from such expiration of service, and this interval shall count towards his next period of five years' service.
(e) That half pay is granted for the period on leave, and the return passage of the Applicant defrayed. These amounts will be paid on the Applicant's return to the Colony and re-cnlistment.
() The number of men on leave will be limited at the discretion of His Excellency the
Governor.
(g) On the Applicant's return he will be sworn in under §§ 8 and 13 of Ordinance 14 of 1887, for a further period of five years' service, and reinstated in his relative position. III.-- Members of the Force who are drawing allowance for knowledge of English, Hindustani or Chinese will be allowed to draw half the allowance when on half pay leave.
W. C. II. HASTINGS, Acting Captain Superintendent of Police...
Approved by the Governor in Council this 17th day of March, 1896.
COUNCIL CHAMBER, HONGKONG.
F. J. BADELEY, Acting Clerk of Councils,
the Pension shall be calculated upon the average amount of pay received by such person during the three years next preceding the cominencement of such Pension. Further, for every full and complete year's service after ten years, an addition to the Annual Pension of 1/60 part of the average annual pay of his rank shall be made for each additional year of such service.
5. Extra pay for acting appointments will in no case be taken into consideration, but good conduct allowance shall be included with pay in the calculation of Pension or Gratuity,
6. Time spent on leave with half salary, provided it does not excced 1/6th of resident service, shall be reckoned for Pension purposes at the rate of one month for every two months of such leave, but absence without salary or beyond 1/6th of resident service shall not be reckoned at all.
7. All Pensions granted shall be payable in Hongkong or London, or in the principal towns of British India.
8. Full Peusions or Gratuities will be granted only on the Applicant's conduct having becu uniformly good.
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9. Should the Applicant's conduct not have been uniformly good, a modified Pension or Gratuity will be granted. Should his conduct have been decidedly bad, no Pension or Gratuity will be paid. 10. A Commuted Payment, calculated at five times the amount of the Annual Pension, may granted in lieu of a Pension, if the applicant should be unable to draw his Pension at any of the places Before mentioned, or on the application of the Grantee, at the discretion of His Excellency the Governor.
11. If any person receiving a Pension under these Regulations should be appointed to fill any office in any Public Department, such Pension shall cease to be paid for any period subsequent to such appointment if the aunual amount of the profits of the office to which he 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.
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12. A Pension is granted only on the condition that it becomes forfeited, and be withdrawn by His Excellency the Governor, in any of the following cases :---
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HONGKONG POLICE,
PENSION REGULATIONS.
The following Regulations, concerning the general conditions upon which Pensions, Superannuation Allow- ances, or other Relief are to be granted, under Section 17 of Ordinance No. 14 of 1887 to Subordinate Officers or Constables of the Police Force, authorized by His Excellency the Governor in Council, this 17th day of March, 1896, are substituted for those made by the Governor in Council on the 4th July, 1895, and Gazetted on the 13th July, 1895:---
1. Subject to the exceptions and provisions hereinafter contained, a l'ension will be granted to any Subordinate Officer or Constable of the Police Force, who has completed fifteen years' service and has attained the age of 45 years, at a rate not exceeding 20/60 of the Annual pay of his rank, pro- vided he shall have been in receipt of the same for the last three years; otherwise, the pension shall be calculated upon the average amount of pay received by such person during the three years next preceding the commencement of such Pension. Further, for every full and complete year's service after fifteen years, an addition to the Annual Pension of 1/60" part of the average annual pay of his rank shall be made for each additional year of such service.
2. Any Subordinate Officer or Constable of the Police Force who may be invalided after serving ten complete years and under fifteen years, may (provided that such invaliding be not the consequence of intemperate or vicious habits) be granted a pension not exceeding 15/60 of the average Annual pay of his rank during the past three years' service, and 1/60 for each full and complete year's service after ten years.
3. Any Subordinate Officer or Constable of the Police Force who may be invalided as aforesaid before the completion of ten years' service may be granted a Gratuity not exceeding one month's average pay for the past three years for each complete year's service.
The Pension of a Subordinate Officer or Constable, who retires on account of infirmity of body or mind certified by the Colonial Surgeon to have been brought about by his own default or vicious habits, may be reduced by an amount not exceeding one half of the Pension to which such Subordinate Officer or Constable would otherwise have been entitled.
4. Subject to the exceptions and provisions hereinafter contained, a Pension will be granted to any Subordinate Officer or Constable of the Police Force who joined previous to the 13th September, 1884, (excepting those who have joined under or have accepted an agreement to serve fifteen years before becoming entitled to a l'ension) who has served ten years, at the rate of 15/60ths of the Annual of his rank, provided he shall have been in receipt of the same for the last three years; otherwise.
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(a) On the conviction of the Grantec for any indictable offence. (b) On his knowingly associating with thieves or suspected persons.
(c) On his refusing to give information and assistance to the Police whenever in his power, for the detection and apprehension of Criminals, and for the suppression of dis. turbance of the public peace.
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(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 l'olice in a manner which His Excellency the Governor considers to be discreditable and improper.
13. 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 made to vary partly in proportion to the num- ber of years served by the injured man, and partly in proportion to the severity of the injury and the date of its occurrence.
The portion of the pension earned by length of service shall be calculated at
the rate of 1/60 of the salary of the Officer at the time when he retires, for each year of service then 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 40/60 in respect of service 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
(6) Whether such incapacity is likely to be permanent.
(c) Whether thec retirement is to be attributed solely and inmediately to the injuries received. 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 12/60TM*;
(c) When materially impaired not exceeding 18/60ts ;
(d) When totally destroyed not exceeding 24/60.
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.
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