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made by the Government of the Colony (including regulations as to examinations in native languages, &c. As a rule he will be required to spend some time at Canton or elsewhere in China in order to study Chinese and subsequently to proceed to India to study Police work, drill, and Hindustani. A Probationer who has passed the prescribed examinations will be paid at the rate of £300 per annum until he obtains a substantive appointment. Should a Probationer remain three years, after passing his examinations, without obtaining a substantive appointment, his salary will be increased to £350.
8. Any Probationer who may fail to pass the prescribed examinations within four years, or be found unfit for Police duties, will be liable to removal from the service. Any Probationer so removed from the service will be granted a free passage to England, provided that he utilizes such passage within three months from the date of his removal.
9. Subject to the necessities of the service, leave of absence on half salary may be granted after a period of six years' resident service without any special grounds. It may be given before the expiration of that period in cases of serious indisposition, or of urgent private affairs. In the absence of special grounds, the leave in such case must not exceed one-sixth of the officer's resident service on special grounds it may exceed that alfa) period by six months. In addition to the above, vacation leave on full pay may be granted, if no inconvenience or expense is caused thereby, not exceeding three months in any two years.
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10. The present rule as to superannuation is that in the case of ill-health an officer may be allowed to retire on a pension after ten full years' resident service; otherwise he must have attained the age of 55. For ten full years' resident service fifteen- sixtieths of the average annual salary of the retiring officer's fixed appointments for the three years prior to retirement may be awarded, to which one-sixtieth may be added for each additional year's service; but no addition will be made in respect of any service beyond 35 years. For pension purposes absence on vacation leave counts as full service, and leave on half pay as half service.
11. A deduction of four per cent. will be made from the salaries of all Proba tioners, as a contribution towards the pensions of the widows and orphans of Public Officers.
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12. The currency of Hong Kong is based on the silver dollar. For purposes of local payment salaries fixed in sterling are converted into dollars at a rate fixed by the Government, and based upon the average exchange value of the dollar during the month ending on the fifteenth day of the month for which salary is to be paid. When, however, if the average exchange rate for any month exceeds 28., salaries are converted at 2s. to the
dollar.
13. The Police Service of Hong Kong is at present classified as follows, but no guarantee is given that the numbers and conditions of the appointments or the salaries attached to them will remain unaltered, or that they will be exclusively confined to officers originally appointed as Probationers.
Assistant Superintendent (one). Salary £400 a year rising by annual increments of £20 to £560 a year, with a duty allowance of £100 a year.
Deputy Superintendent (one). Salary £600 a year rising by triennial increments of £40 to £720 a year with a duty allowance of £120 a year.
Captain Superintendent (one). Salary £800 a year rising by triennial increments of £100 to £1,000 a year with a duty allowance of £150 a year.
A "duty allowance" is a non-pensionable allowance paid only while an officer is actually serving in the Colony.
Free quarter will be provided for Probationers out the value of the
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COLONIAL OFFICE,
September, 1911.
April 1912.
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