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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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C.O. 882

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Medical Attendance

14 Officers and their families may obtain free medical advice in the Government hospitals and may obtain free medical attendance and medicine for themselves and their families in their own homes when unable to go to hospital for medical advice. All officers and their wives, and clukdren under 18 years of age, when patients in the Government hospitals, are allowed the privilege of reduced fees in accordance with a scale based on the rate of salary drawn by the officers

Leave and Passages

15. In Hong Kong leave of absence may be granted to officers on the permanent establishment who are doiniciled in Europe or the Dominions at the rate of one day for each 7 days' resident service and is ordinarily granted after 4 years' service until the officer has attained the age of 45 and completed 20 years' Colonial service. Thereafter leave is accumulated at the rate of 2 days for each 11 days' resident service and is ordinarily granted after 3 years' service. In addition to leave an officer proceeding home on furlough is granted full pay for the periods of the voyages both ways which are not included in leave. In case of serious indisposition or urgent private affairs leave may be granted before completion of the periods of resident service named above, and extensions of leave beyond the period earned by service may be granted on half pay up to an aggregate of 6 months.

In addition to ordinary leave an officer, other than an educational officer who receives the benefit of school vacations, is eligible for 15 days' casual leave for each year, which may be accumulated for 2 years; but such leave may not be tuken in combination with ordinary leave.

16. Officers on the temporary establishment including officers serv- ing on agreement are eligible for casual and sick leave as described in paragraphs 15 and 17. The latter are also eligible, if their service is not less than 12 months, for leave at the rate of one-twelfth of their service.

17. All officers are eligible for 28 days' sick leave per annum and if the circumstances of the illness appear to him to justify it the Governor may extend this allowance. Sick leave is excluded from all calculations relating to ordinary leave.

18. Officers who have been confirmed in their appointments become eligible for return passages when proceeding on home leave at the rate of 1/1460th for each day of resident service until they have attained the age of 45 and completed 20 years' Colonial service. Thereafter they become eligible at the rate of 1/1095th for each such day. An officer who is permitted to proceed home before becoining eligible for full passages is required to contribute

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cash the unearned portion of his passages; but an officer who on proceeding home is eligible for more than full passages may use the surplus for subsequent leaves.

The eligibility of the officer extends to his wife, sons below the age of 16, and unmarried dependent daughters below the age of 21, up to a maximum of four full-fare passages in addition to his own. Family passages may be granted in advance of the officer's own leave, the assistance receivable from Government being full or partial according as the officer completes or does not complete On the full tour of duty before he himself proceeds on leave. retirement the officer is similarly eligible to receive the full or part cost of passages.

Pension

19. The present rule as to superannuation is that in the case of ill-health an officer holding a pensionable appointment may be allowed to retire on a pension after 10 full years' satisfactory service; otherwise he must have attained the age of 55, though with the consent of Government he may retire at the age of 50. The normal age for retirement in Hong Kong is 55 years. Special approval is required for service beyond that age. If an officer has not completed 10 years' service he may be granted gratuity not exceeding five times the annual pension which he might have received if there had been no qualifying period.

Pensions are calculated at the rate of 1/600th of the officer's pensionable emoluments at the time of retirement (or the average qf his pensionable emoluments for the preceding 3 years if he has held different offices during that period) for each complete month of service up to a maximum of two-thirds of such emoluments. Pensionable emoluments include in addition to salary an allowance in respect of quarters equivalent to 1/6th of his salary up to a maximum of £200 per annum. An officer may elect, within 8 certain period, to be paid on retirement, in lieu of the pension for which he would otherwise be eligible, pension at the rate of three- fourths of such pension, together with a gratuity equal to ten times the annual value of the reduction so made in the pension.

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If an officer holding a pensionable office, having not less than

5 years' pensionable service, dies while in the Service, his legal personal representative may be granted a gratuity of an amount not exceeding one year's pensionable emoluments.

A deduction of 4 per cent. per annum is made from the salaries of all officers permanently employed in the service of the Govern- ment or appointed on an agreement for any period exceeding two years as a contribution to the Widows' and Orphans' Pension Scheme.

(1/425) (31755-29) Wt. 21388—2507 290 1/16 P. 8. G. 171