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(4) If any member of an officer's family proceeds home in advance of him, a passage home will be provided in the first instance, on the understanding that the officer will repay:- (a) Such proportion of the cost as is payable by him in
respect of his own passage if he proceeds on leave
or retires on pension before the completion of four
years' resident service.
(b)
the whole of such cost if he leaves the service
except on pension before the completion of four
years' resident service.
Any such grant of a passage home will preclude any further grant in respect of a passage to or from the Colony for the same member of the family until the officer himself shall
have proceeded on leave.
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(13).-(a) An officer who has attained the age of 45 and
has completed three years' resident service will if permitted to proceed on leave before complet ing four years' service, contribute towards the
and aro cost of his own/family's passages only one half of the amount which would be payable by him under the preceding clauses of this General
Order.
(b) If an officer who has attained the age of 45 is
permitted to go on leave before completing three years' resident service he will be called upon to contribute one eighth of the total cost plus that proportion of seven eighths of the total cost which the period necessary to complete thro
years bears to three years.
(14).-(a) An officer transferred to Hong Kong from a
tropical British Colony will be given full