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(e) every male person serving on agreement in any office in the public service under the Government for a period of three years or more:
Provided that the said term shall not apply to any person specified in paragraph (c), (d) or (e) of this regulation who is in receipt of a salary of less than two thousand and four hundred dollars per annum, or if at the time of his appointment to such office he has attained the age of forty-nine years:
Provided also that this regulation shall not apply to any police officer who was in the public service at the material date and whose salary did not suffer abatement under the Ordinance unless and until such officer is promoted, or elects to become a contributor as from the material date by written notice to that effect given to the Accountant General within one month from the material date :
Provided further that an agreement officer who is at the material date in the public service or shall thereafter join it shall be bound by this regulation only if he fails to give written notice to the Accountant General that he does not desire this regulation to apply to him. Such notice shall be given within one month from the material date or from the date of assumption of duty whichever is the later.
4. Regulation 3 shall as regards officers in the public service trospective prior to the material date have retrospective effect in the cases and effect.
to the extent hereinafter appearing that is to say-
(e) in the case of any officer whose salary suffered abatement under the Ordinance after the 30th January, 1948, and prior to the material date, other than any agreement officer who pursuant either to the third proviso to regula- tion 3 or to regulation 6, informs the Accountant General that he does not desire that regulation 3 shall apply to him, regulation 3 shall apply as from the first date after the goth of January, 1948, when such officer's salary first so suffered abatement;
(b) in the case of any officer whose salary did not suffer abatement under the Ordinance then if such officer elects in manner hereinafter provided that regulation 3 shall apply to him with retrospective effect such regulation shall apply to him as from such date as he may lawfully specify by such election as the date as from which he wishes regulation 3 to have effect.
for officers
did not
5. (1) An officer whose salary did not suffer abatement Election under the Ordinance may by notice in writing to the Accountant whose General given within one month from the material date elect salary that regulation 3 shall apply to him with retrospective effect as suffer from any date after the 30th January, 1948, when regulation 3 abotament. would have applied to him had it then been in force: Provided that for such purpose a salary of eighteen hundred dollars per annum received in respect of a period prior to the 1st April, 1951, shall be deemed to have been a salary of two thousand four hundred dollars per annum.
(2) In the case of a police officer the exercise by him of the election given to him by sub-regulation (1) shall be deemed to be also an effective exercise of the election to become a contri- butor as from the material date, pursuant to the second proviso to regulation 3.
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6. An agreement officer who left the service prior to the Agree- material date may by notice in writing to the Accountant General officers who given within six months from the material date elect that regula- have left
the service tion 3 shall not apply to him in which case regulation 3 shall have no retrospective effect as regards such officer.
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7. Subject to the approval thereof by Legislative Council Commence- these regulations shall come into operation upon the expiration of fourteen days after their publication in the Gaselle.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
arst October, 1952.
مسامد
Clerk of Councils.
Approved this 5th day of November, 1952 by resolution
of the Legislative Council.
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Clerk of Councils.
(Secretariat 4388/48)