CSC V 2993.
Hong Hong, 5th August, 1874.
Attorney General, (Hont John Bramston)
to
Colonial Secretary. Honble I. Gardiner Austin)
Pension.
Inquires if his period of
Service in Queensland
will be counted for-
Enclosure Mesin Governor Sir Arthur E. Kennedy's Despatch No 149 of 7th
August 1874
No. 46.
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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Additional Pension Minute,
Under Instructions from Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, it is hereby notified that Pensions will hereafter be granted to Civil Servants of the Government of Hongkong in conformity with the Provisions of the following Rules, which are published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 25th April, 1870.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary,
1. The Pension of every Public Officer, on his ultimate retirement from the Service of any Colony, shall be calculated (if payable at all) upon the whole period of his contiunous service in any civil employments under the Imperial, or under any other Colonial Government.
2. The Government from whose Service he retires, will pay him the rate of Pension due to this period of service by the Law or practice of the Colony, subject to a deduction equal to the retiring Pension, which, on the principle of the Imperial Superannuation Act, (qualified by Section 6), would be due to him from the Government by which he was last previously employed, if he had retired from ill health at the period of his promotion.
3. In the case of several promotions the same principle will be applied as between any two successive employers, the second of these employers paying the Officer a Pension calculated on the whole period of his continuous Public Service up to the date of his second transfer, but subject to a deduction equal to a Pension calculated on service previous to his first transfer.
4. If in any of the employing Colonies no Retiring Pension is payable, or a rate of Pension loss than the Imperial rate, the Officer must be a loser to that extent. Nor must he claim from any Colony from whose Service he has been promoted a rate higher than that authorized by the Imperial Superannuation Act,
5. In some Colonies a certain number of years are added to an Officer's service, by way of bonus, calculating his Retiring Pension. An Officer promoted from such a Colony shall lose that bonus. An Officer retiring from the Service of such a Colony shall only be allowed it in case he shall have remained in that Service for the time necessary to qualify him for receiving it.
6. If an Officer does not remain ten years in the Colonial Service from which he retires, his Salary shall, for the purpose of calculating his Retiring Pension, be taken on the average of the last The same rule will be applied in calculating the payment to be made to him in respect of
ten years.
any intermediate employment.
7. It may happen that an Officer receiving a higher Salary, without a right to Pension, may be transferred to a Colony in which he will receive a lower Salary with a right to Peusion. In this case the first Salary shall be taken not only for the purpose of calculating the Pension, but also for the purpose of calculating the deduction, as being of the same amount as the second.
A Memorandum containing some supposed cases in illustration of these Rules, is anexed.
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