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PASSAGES.
No.1. These rules will come into force on
A.- OFFICERS DOMICILED IN EUROPE, CANADA, AUSTRALASIA
AND SOUTH AFRICA.
2. A person selected for appointment to a public office
will, in the absence of any local law or regulation to
the contrary, receive a free passage from this country
from Colonial funds for himself and for his wife and
children not exceeding four persons besides himself. The person so appointed will be required to execute an agree-
ment to refund the cost of the passage in certain conting-
encies.
When an officer is transferred from one Colony to
another, he will receive free passages by the cheapest and
most direct route under similar conditions.
3.-(1) An officer of this class on the permanent establishment is eligible for the privilege of free passages
to his country of domicile, at the rate of 1/48th, in
respect of each completed month of his resident service,
of the cost to Government of a return passage if he is
granted leave to such country in circumstances contemplating
continuance of his service upon his return to the Colony and until retirement in the ordinary course, or of a single passage if he is granted leave in circumstances not contem-
plating such continuance: Provided that when such an officer has attained the age of 45 and completed twenty years in the Hong Kong Government Service the rate thereafter in his case will be 1/36th in respect of each such month.
(2) Unless otherwise expressly provided in this order
every such passage will be by a passenger ship approved by
the Government for the purpose, and the class of accommodat- ion will be 'First' in the case of officers whose salary
scales go above £800 per annum, and Nursing Sisters and
School