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Extract from Hongkong Pension Mimte.
No. 17.
PEC
REC 11 JUL 18
Subject as aforesaid, every public officer (other than a Judge of the Supreme Court) who, having been in the service of the Crown elsewhere than in the Colony, is trans- ferred from such service to the Fixed Establishment of the Colony and who in respect of his aggregate service in the Colony and elsewhere might have been awarded, had it been wholly in the Colony, a pension or retiring allowance under this Minute, may on his retirement from the service of the Colony, if he at the same time retires from the service of the Crown, and if he had served for a period of at least twelve months in the Colony, be awarded a pension at the rate of one seven-hundred-and-twentieth of the amount of his annual salary at the date of such retirement for each calendar month of his service in the Colony, and in every such case there may be add- ed, at the discretion of the Governor in Council, in computing the period of the retiring officer's service in the Colony, a number of months not exceeding -
(a) One-third of the aggregate of his service elsewhere
than in the Colony; nor
(b) Two-thirds of his service in the Colony; nor (c) In any case eighty-four months.