Enclosure No. 2.
57
Extract from the Pension Minute of the Hong Kong Government.
X
A.- Officers' Pensions.
X
X
X
No.1 (2) Subject to sub-paragraph (1) of this paragraph, and to the other provisions of this Minute, every public officer who has served ten years or upwards may be awarded,
on his retirement, a pension at the rate of one-seven-
hundred-and-twentieth of his annual salary for each completed
month of service, together with an addition of five-sixtieths
of such salary, provided that the total pension awarded shall
not exceed forty-sixtieths of such salary.
(3) Subject as aforesaid every public officer who has
not completed ten years of service for pension in accordance
with the provisions of clause No.1l of this kinute, but who
is permitted to retire on the ground of infirmity of mind
or body, may nevertheless be awarded a pension, provided
(a) that at the time of his retirement 10 calendar years
shall have elapsed from the date on which he first
commenced to draw salary, and
J
(b) that the said officer shall have been continuously in
the service of the Colony during the whole of the said
period.
The pension that may be awarded in such cases ahall
be at the rate of one-seven-hundred-and-twentieth of the
officer's annual salary for each completed month of service,
together with an addition of five-sixtieths of such salary