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Control of
force and
civilian
staff.
Oath or declaration.
Schedule.
Period of engagement.
Compulsory retirement
for
Inefficiency
or age.
Terms on
which discharge may be claimed.
Provisions
as to pensions
of force.
4. The force and civilian staff shall be under the control of the Inspector General and the members thereof shall obey all such lawful commands as they may receive from the In- spector General.
Regulation of the Force.
5. Every person before appointment as a subordinate officer or constable or police interpreter or telephone operator or member of a crew shall take the oath or make the declara- tion in the Schedule.
6. (1) Every subordinate officer, constable, police inter- preter, telephone operator and member of a crew shall engage and bind himself to serve for a term of not less than three months and of not more than five years, as may be directed by the Inspector General, during which term he shall not be at liberty to resign his office or to withdraw himself from the duties thereof, except as is hereinafter provided.
(2) Such period of engagement may include a probation- ary period, which shall not exceed six months, and should the person thus engaged be found during his probationary period to be unsatisfactory, the Inspector General may at any time during such probationary period terminate the engagement.
(3) No person whose period of engagement is terminated under sub-section (2) shall be entitled to any pay or compensa- tion other than the pay earned up to the time when the engagement was terminated.
7. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to require any subordinate officer, constable, police interpreter, telephone operator or member of a crew, whenever appointed, to retire from the public service of the Colony who-
(a) appears to the Governor to be unable to discharge efficiently the duties of his office; or
(6) has attained the age of fifty-five years.
8. Any subordinate officer, constable, police interpreter, telephone operator or member of a crew shall be entitled to claim his discharge at any time on his giving to the Inspector General three months notice of his wish to withdraw and paying a sum equivalent to two months pay of the rank or office he may hold at the time of his giving notice of with- drawal for each unexpired year of his term of appointment: Provided always that it shall be lawful for the Governor to remit the whole or any part of the said sum: Provided also that it shall be lawful for the Governor to direct the In- spector General in any case to accept a shorter notice than three months.
9.-(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations for the granting of pensions to members for members of the force, or in respect of service in the force, and to determine in special cases, where the regulations appear to the Governor in Council to be inapplicable or to require modi- fication, the amount (if any) of the pension, the terms on which it shall be granted and the manner in which it shall be paid.
(2) Pensions granted under this Ordinance shall be paid out of the general revenue of the Colony.
staff.
10. The Inspector General, Deputy Inspector General, Pensions of Divisional Superintendents, Superintendents, Assistant Super-General etc.,
Inspector intendents, Probationers and the members of the civilian and civilian staff, including any members of the civilian staff who may before the 21st day of December, 1923, have been sworn in as constables or as sergeant interpreters, shall, as regards pen- sions, be subject to the provisions of the Pensions Ordinance, Ordinance 1932, and of any regulations made thereunder, and not to 1932, the provisions of the Police Pension Regulations: Provided that this section shall not affect any person who shall have ceased to be a member of the civilian staff before the 21st day of December, 1923.
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11. If, within three years after the granting of a pension Revocation under this Ordinance to any member of the force, it is proved, of pension. to the satisfaction of the Governor in Council, that the person
to whom such pension has been granted had been guilty of any corrupt practices in the execution of his office, either by receiving bribes, or by inducing or compelling payment, directly or indirectly, of any valuable consideration to himself or to any other person by way of a bribe, or by otherwise acting corruptly in the execution of or under colour of his office as a member of the force, then in every such case it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to revoke and annul the grant of such pension or to make such reduction therein as to the Governor in Council may appear fit.
12.----(J) Subject to the provisions of section 9, it shall Regulations. be lawful for the Inspector General to make such regulations as he may consider necessary for :—
(a) the general government and discipline of the force;
(b) regulating the internal economy of the force;
(c) carrying out the daily routine of the force; and (d) prescribing the conditions under which leave and passages will be granted to subordinate officers and constables and members of the civilian staff.
(2) All regulations made under this section shall be pub- lished by the Inspector General in the form of Police General Orders and shall come into effect on the date of such publica- tion, unless some other date be specified in any such order.
(3) I shall not be necessary to publish in the Gazette any regulations made under this section.
(4) All regulations made under this section shall be cir- culated to the members of the Executive Council, and it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to rescind or amend in any manner any such regulation. Any such rescission or amendment shall be published in the same manner as the regulation rescinded or amended was published, and the regu- lation shall be deemed to be rescinded or amended, as the case may be, as from and including the date of the publication of the rescission or amendment, unless some other date is speci- fied in such publication.
(5) In any proceedings, any regulation made under this section may be proved by the production of a copy of the Police General Orders in which such regulation was published. certified under the hand of the Inspector General, Deputy
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