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Enclosure
MINUTE
AS TO
PENSION RULES
Framed under Ordinance No. 10 of 1862 by the Governor "REC
Dated the 28th December, 1891.
No. 1.
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pensions to be
1. Subject to the Provisions of this Minute, every Public Officer borne on the Fixed Persons to whom, Establishment of the Colony (other than a Judge of the Supreme Court, or Members of and at what rates the Police Force who are entitled to retiring allowances under Ordinance 14 of 1887) granted. who has served ten years or upwards, and whose annual salary exceeds $240, may be awarded, on his retirement, a pension at the rate of fifteen-sixtieths of such salary, with an addition of one-sixtieth in respect of each complete year of such service in excess of ten, until the maximum of forty-sixtieths is reached.
2. No Officer whose annual salary does not exceed $240 may be awarded a pension, but a compassionate allowance may be granted in special cases of long and faithful service, provided that such compassionate allowance shall not exceed two-thirds of the rate of pension grantable to an Officer under paragraph 1.
3. No Officer may be awarded a pension in respect of any service under the age of sixteen years, nor in respect of his service in any of the following capacities, viz: Private Secretary or Aide-de-Camp to the Governor; Clerk to a Judge of the Supreme Court, unless in the permanent Civil Service; Apprentice in a public department; Normal Student or Pupil Teacher.
4. Every Officer otherwise qualified for a pension who is constrained from infirmity of mind or body to leave the public service before the completion of ten years service may be awarded a gratuity at the rate of half a month's salary for each complete six months of service.
5. An Officer who has been transferred to or from the service of the Crown in this Colony from or to the service of the Crown elsewhere will not be awarded a pension or gratuity under this clause, but his case will be dealt with under clause 15 of this Minute, provided always that the case of any such Officer who, having been so trans- ferred to the service of the Colony, has served in the Colony for a period of ten years and upwards immediately prior to his ultimate retirement from the service of the Crown, may be dealt with under this clause instead of under clause fifteen.
6. Any Officer permanently attached to the local Audit Department, notwith- standing the fact that his salary is paid out of an open vote, may be awarded, on his ultimate retirement, a pension or gratuity subject to the conditions of this Minute, as though he were on the fixed Establishment of the Colony.
No. 2.
1. Subject as aforesaid, every Judge of the Supreme Court who has served as a Pensions of Judges. Judge for seven years or upwards may on his retirement be awarded a pension at the rate of fifteen-sixtieths of his salary, with an addition of two-sixtieths is respect of each year of such service in excess of seven, until twenty-nine-sixtieths is reached, and with the further addition of one-sixtieth in respect of each year of such service in excess of fourteen, until the maximum of forty-sixtieths is reached.
2. A Judge who was at the date of his appointment to the Bench borne on the Fixed Establishment of the Colony may be awarded, at his option, either a pension computed in accordance with the scale set forth in paragraph 1 of this clause, for the period of his service as Judge, or a pension computed at ordinary pension rates for the whole period of his service, whether as Judge or otherwise.
3. In the event of a Judge who was at the date of his appointment as a Judge borne on the Fixed Establishment of the Colony, retiring before he has completed seven years' service as a Judge, his case will be dealt with under clause 4 of this Minute.
No. 3.
1. (a.) Except in cases where a right to pension has been previously acknowledged Officers enjoying
or sanctioned by the Secretary of State or the Governor in Council, Officers whose whole private practice.
time is not given to the public service and professional Officers who are allowed the private practice of their professions, may not be awarded pensions under these Regula-
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