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PART VI,
SUPPLEMENTARY.
31. (0) If an officer holding a pensionable office in which he retiring on has been confirmed is permanently injured-
account of
infuries.
(a) in the actual discharge of his duty; and (b) without his own default; and
(c) on account of circumstances specifically attribut- able to the nature of his duty-
(i) he may,
if his retirement is thereby necessitated or materially accelerated and he has been in the public service for less than ten years, be granted, in lieu of any gratuity under Regulation 5 or Regulation 12 of these Regulations, a pension under Regulations 4, 9, 10 or 11, as the case may be, as if the words "for ten years or more" were omitted from the said Regulation 4
(ii) he may, if so injured while în the service of this Colony, be granted on retirement an additional pension at the annual rate of the proportion of his actual pensionable emoluments at the date of his injury appropriate to his case as shown in the following table:
When his capacity to contribute to his own support is-
50
slightly impaired
600
+
*++
100
impaired ...
600
150
materially impaired
600
200
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totally destroyed
:
Provided that the amount of the additional pension may be reduced to such an extent as the Governor in Council shall think reasonable where the injury is not the cause or the sole cause of retirement.
(2) Any officer so injured while in the service of this Colony not holding a pensionable office, or holding a pensionable office in which he has not been confirmed, may be granted on retirement a pension of the same amount as the additional pension
+
$
which might be granted to him under paragraph (1) of this Regulation if his office were a pensionable office and he had been confirmed therein.
(3) If an officer proceeding by a route approved by the Governor to or from the Colony at the commencement or termina- tion of his service therein, or a period of leave therefrom, is permanently injured as a result of damage to vessel, aircraft or vehicle in which he is travelling, or of any violence directed against such vessel, aircraft or vehicle, and the Governor is satisfied that such damage or act is attributable to circumstances arising out of war in which His Majesty may be engaged, such officer shall be deemed for the purposes of this Regulation to have been injured in the circumstances described in the first paragraph of this Regulation.
(4) An officer who is permanently injured while travelling by air in pursuance of official instructions shall be deemed to have been injured in the circumstances detailed in (a) and (c) of paragrapli (1): Provided that in such a case and if (b) is also satisfied the rates of pension prescribed in that paragraph shall be seventy-five six-hundredths; one hundred and fifty six- hundredths; two hundred and twenty-five six-hundredths and three-hundred six-hundredths respectively.
(s) The provisions of Regulation a3 shall not apply to
a pension granted under this Regulation.
32. In lieu of the grant of a pension or annual allowance there Commuta- may, with the approval of the Governor, be granted to an officer tion. if he intends to reside in India or in China, a capital sum equal to the amount of five annual payments, but no such capital sum shall ordinarily be paid in any case of retirement on the ground of ill-health: Provided that for the purposes of this Regulation such annual payments shall be the remaining portions after deduction of the annual contribution, if any, due in respect of widows and orphans pension.
33. It shall be a condition of the grant of every pension or Conditions other allowance that the Governor in Council may cancel or reduce
of pension. it if it be shown to have been obtained by the wilful suppression of material facts or to have been granted in ignorance of facts which, had they been known before the retirement of the officer, would have justified his dismissal or a reduction of his salary.
34. Where a European matron or a European nursing-sister Allowance has been employed in other public service as a qualified nursing- in certain sister or matron, which employment was obtained by or through hospital
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