97
Service in Straits Settlements and in
continuous for esiculation of pension,
salary at the date of his retirement (if he ultimately retires as a Judge of the Supreme Court of this Colony) or at the date of his being so transferred from the service of thi Colony for each month of his service as a Judge in this Colony tog, ther with a pensia for his service in any other capacity in this Colony calculated as under paragraph (1) or (2) of this clause.
in
every
No. 21.
If any person to whom a pension has been granted under this Minute is convicted Pension to cease fore any Court in Her Majesty's dominions of any crime or offence for which he is convictionley or kentenced to death or penal servitude or transportation or any term of imprisonment with 4. Subject as aforesaid, every officer (other than a Judge of the Supreme Conviction receive Her Majesty's free pardon, or if any such person becomes a bankrupt, bard labour or exceeding twelve months, and does not within two months after such Malay States to be who is transferred to or from the service of the Colony from or to the service of
Straits Settlements or of a Ruler of any Native State in the Malay Peninsula whics where a pension ceases by reason of the bankraptey of the pensioner it shall be such case such pension shall forthwith cease: provided always that in any or was while such officer served there under the protection of the British Governmeful for the Secretary of State for the Colonies or if such pensioner is resident in the and administered by an officer appointed by the Governor of the Straits Settlements Colony then for the Governor in Council from time to time during the remainder of such and whose aggregate service in the Colony and in the Straits Settlements or such Native pensioner's life or during such shorter period or periods either continuous or discontinuous State or States would have entitled him had it been wholly in the Colony to a pensions such Secretary of State or Governor in Council shall think fit to pay all or any part under this minute, shall on his ultimate retirement from service if he has served for of the moneys to which such pensioner would have been entitled by way of pension had period of at least twelve months in the Colony be entitled to a pension of such he not become a bankrupt or to apply the same for the maintenance and personal support amount as shall bear the same proportion to the amount of pension to which he woul have been entitled had his service been wholly in the Colony as the aggregate amount such pensioner and any wife, child or children of his in such proportions and manner as for benefit of all or any exclusive of the other or others of the following persons, namely, of the salary drawn by him from the Colonial Treasury during his service in the Colonych Secretary of State or Governor in Council from time to time thinks proper. shall bear to the total summ made up of such aggregate amount as last aforesaid and the aggregate amount of the salary drawn by him from the Treasury or Treasuries of the Straits S.ttlements or any such Native State or States during his service therein. Provided always that such transfer was made with the approval of the Governor in Council and that the salary so drawn by him whilst in the service of any such Native Ruler was fixed with the approval of the Governor of the Straits Settlements.
Allowance to officers who have served fifteen years
establishment.
No. 16.
In the case of an officer who is not qualified for a pension or retiring allowane under this Minute but has continuously served on the temporary establishment of the on the temporary Colony for fifteen years or upwards, and is at the date of his retirement in receipt of a salary exceeding $240 per annum, a monthly allowance may be granted to such officer not exceeding three-fourths of the pension which might have been awarded to him had! he been employed on the Fixed Establishment; provided that when an officer has been. transferred from the Fixed to the Temporary Establishment he shall be entitled, either! (a) to count his service on the temporary establishment as though it were service on the Fixed Establishment, at the salary which he received immediately prior to such transfer, or (b) to count his service on the Fixed Establishment as though it were service on the temporary establishment, and to take the benefit of this clause accordingly. And in the case of an officer on the temporary establishment whose salary does not exceed $240 per annum, or of an officer paid out of an open vote who is not on either the the Fixed or Temporary Establishment of the Colony, be granted as under clause 1. paragraph 2, but such compassionate allowance shall not ompassionate allowance may exceed one half of the rate of pension grantable under clau: 1, paragraph 1.
Pension may be capitalised,
Existing claims.
Compulsory
No. 17.
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In lieu of any pension or compassionate allowance granted under this Minute there may be paid to an officer, with the approval of the Secretary of State, a capital suun equal to five years' payments of such pnsion or compassionate allowance, but no such capital sum shall ordinarily be paid in the case of retirement on the ground of ill-health.
No. 18.
Nothing contained in this Minute shall interfere with the pension rights of who entered the service of the Colony before the date of the Minute, or shall restrict or persons diminish any superannuation allowance, compensation, or gratuity which, if this Minute Lad not been issued, might have been granted to any such person, but except as aforesaid, the provisions of the Minute shall apply as well to persons who have alreally entered the Public Service as to those who may hereafter enter the Public Service of Hongkong.
No. 19.
retirement at sixty. instructions received from or through the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the The Governor in Council may (subject as regards officers appointed under approval of such Secretary of State) require any Judge or other Public Officer to retire from the Public Service of the Colony at any time after he attains the age of sixty years.
Pensis not to l assignable.
No. 20.
No pension granted under this Minute shall be assignable or transferable or liable to be attached, sequestered or levied upon for or in respect of any debt or claim whatsoever.
THE SCHEDULE.
The number of years to be added to the period of service in cases coming under clause 3, paragraph 2, for the purpose of computing pensions is as follows
For the 1st Class 5 years.
1st Class,-
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2nd
1
3rd
3
2
15
11
71
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Attorney General.
Director of Public Works. Colonial Surgeon.
2nd Class,--
Harbour Master.
Registrar Supreme Court. Superintendent Civil Hospital.
Assistant Surgeons, Medical Department.
3rd Class,-
Executive Engineers.
Assistant Engineers.
Marine Surveyors,
Assistant Harbour Master.
Land Surveyors.
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