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10. Should the Applicant's conduct not have been uniformly good, a modified Pension or will be granted. Should his conduct have been decidedly bad, no Pension or Gratuity will be paid,
11. A Commuted Payment, calculated at five times the amount of the Annual Pension, may g granted in lieu of a Pension, if the applicant should be unable to draw his Pension at any of the plas before mentioned, or on the application of the Grantee, at the discretion of His Excellency
Governor.
12. If any person receiving a Pension under these Regulations should be appointed to fill office in any Public Department, such Pension shall cease to be paid for any period subsequent such appointment if the annual amount of the profits of the office to which be shall be appointed sh be equal to those of the office formerly held by him; and in case it shall not be equal to those of l former office, then no more of such Pension shall be paid to him than what with the salary of his appointment shall be equal to the profits of his former office.
13. A Pension is granted only on the condition that it becomes forfeited, and may be withdraw by His Excellency the Governor, in any of the following cases :—
(a.) On the conviction of the Grantee for any indictable offence.
(2) On his knowingly associating with thieves or suspected persons.
(c) On his refusing to give information and assistance to the Police whenever in his
for the detection and apprehension of Criminals, and for the suppression of any turbance of the public peace.
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(d) If he enter into or continue to carry on any business, occupation, or employment, whe
shall be, in the opinion of His Excellency the Governor, disgraceful in itself or in rious to the public, or in which he shall make use of the fact of his former cumple ment in the Police in a manner which His Excellency the Governor cousiders to i discreditable and improper.
14. It shall, however, be in the discretion of the Governor in Council to grant a special rate pension to any Subordinate Officer or Coustable of the Police Force who may be compelled to quité Public Service by reason of severe bodily injury, occasioned without his own fault, in the discharged his public duty or whose retirement may be proved to have been accelerated by such injuries.
In every such case the amount of pension shall be made to vary partly in proportion to the num of years served by the injured man, and partly in proportion to the severity of the injury and the of its occurrence. The portion of the pension earned by length of service shall be calculated at t rate of 1/60 of the salary of the Officer at the time when he retires, for each year of service th completed by him, whether the number of years served be more or less than 10, but no number: years service shall be allowed to give a claim to pension of more than 40/60 in respect of ser only; and in every such case a Medical Certificate shall be furnished stating:
(a.) Whether the capacity of the Officer affected to contribute towards his own supporti slightly impaired, impaired, materially impaired, or totally destroyed, and
(b.) Whether such incapacity is likely to be permanent.
(c.) Whether the retirement is to be attributed solely and immediately to the injuries receive
An addition to the pension of the Officer, on account of the injury may then be made on following scale:
(a.) When the capacity is certified to be slightly impaired not exceeding 6/60th of the p
of the Officer at the time he receives such injury.
(b.) When impaired not exceeding 12/60;
(e) When materially impaired not exceeding 18/60th*;
(d.) When totally destroyed not exceeding 24/60,
But in no case shall the total amount of the pension exceed the full amount of the pay sufferer at the time when the injury occurred.
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15. When Police Officers are transferred to some other civil employment under the Governos of Hongkong or to any other public employment with the sanction of the Governor, they will not: the absence of any special arrangement to the contrary, retain a claim to pension under these Re tions but will be dealt with under the ordinary regulations for civil servants or under such spec arrangements as may be made at the time of the transfer.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
HONGKONG.
A. M. THOMSON, Acting Clerk of Councils.
Copy
Enclosure 3.
Report by the Acting
Acking Captain Superintendent of Police and
Acting Superintendent of Gavl.
Colonial Secretary.
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We have considered
the
subject of improving.
the conditions of service in the
Gave Guards, and it seems to us
that the twoo
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grievances ce and difficulty
of service and obraining leave.
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regard
Length in
to the first
we are of oxinion that
we are
not particularly efficient for the
Guard Service after the
age of 45 and we would therefore recom- mend that the Secretary of State should sanction the retirement of Gaol Guards either after 20
"years"
service
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