Provided always that any pension so ceasing shall be restored with retrospec- tive effect in the case of a person who after conviction at any time receives a free pardon. For the purpose of this clause the enduring of the punishment to which any person has been or may be sentenced shall not be deemed to be or to have the effect of a free pardon.
And provided further that where any pension ceases for any reason aforesaid the Secretary of State for the Colonies or, if the pensioner is resident in the Colony then the Governor in Council with the approval of the Secretary of State may cause all or any part of the moneys to which the pensioner would have been entitled by way of pension, during the remainder of such pensioner's life or during any shorter period or periods, either continuous or discontinuous, to be paid to or applied for the benefit of all or any exclusive of the others of the dependents of the pensioner, and the pensioner himself if and when his sentence, if any as aforesaid, shall have expired, in such proportions, if there be more than one recipient or beneficiary, and manner and subject to such conditions, qualifications and restrictions as the Secretary of State or the Governor in Council with such approval as aforesaid, as the case may be, may see fit to direct and impose. Any such directions, conditions, qualifications and restrictions may in like manner be revised, altered, added to or withdrawn at any time and from time to time.
In this clause "pension" includes any periodical or deferred gratuity or allow-
ance granted under this Minute ".
(Extract from the Hong Kong Government Gazette No. 49 of the 10th November, 1927).