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(15) Subject to paragraph (8) of this order, where passages
home and back are required, a total grant will not in any case be made in excess of the cost to Government of return passages
of standard and appropriate accommodation at the time when
such return passages would otherwise have been taken. This
principle will also apply to cases in which an officer makes
private arrangements for a portion of the journey, subject to
the following modifications
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If an officer wishes to disembark at Marseilles a return
passage will be booked to Marseilles only and the officer
will receive an allowance or proportionate allowance, as
the case may be, in respect of the overland journey, of the difference in the cost to Government of the passage so booked and a direct passage to London: If he embarks at Marseilles on his return journey he will receive a similar allowance or proportionate allowance on his arrival in the Colony.
(16) If an officer with a direct passage (Hong Kong-London or London-Hong Kong) disembarks or embarks at Marseilles he
will do so at his own expense, but if the grant to him fell short of the full cost to Government of such a direct passage a refund may be made to him from any sum recovered from the Shipping Company, the refund bearing to such sum recovered the same proportion that such shortage bore to such full cost. Any sum recoverable from a Shipping Company in respect of an unused portion of a ticket, if received from the Company by the officer, must be paid to the Government or the Crown Agents in full; the refund (if any) to the officer will subsequently
be made.
(17) The provisions of this order are applicable, mutatis mutandis, to officers of this class not on the permanent establishment, if the terms of their engagement include an express stipulation for free passages to their countries of
domicile