340
How salary to be computed for
4. Notwithstanding anything hereinbefore contained a period not exceeding one year during which an officer is absent on leave without salary such leave being granted on grounds of public policy may be counted for the purpose of this clause as service on full pay.
No. 11.
1. For the purpose of computing retiring allowances, the salary of the permanent pension purposes. appointment held by the officer at the date of retirement will be taken if he has held such office or an office with the same salary for a period of three years immediately preceding such date; otherwise the average amount of the salary of the permanent appointments held by the officer during the three years immediately preceding his retirement will be taken.
Abolition of office.
Additional allowance grantable in cases of retirement injuries received. in consequence of
2. For the purpose of this clause Salary includes personal allowance, allowance for house rent, estimated value of free quarters, rations, and any other unquestionable remuneration for personal service and any fees paid out of the Treasury by way of salary, but so that the amount to be allowed for house rent or for estimated value of free quarters shall not exceed one-sixth, nor the amount to be allowed for fees one-fourth of the whole of the other emoluments of the office.
No. 12.
1. In case of the abolition of the office of an officer who is borne on the Fixed Establishment of the Colony, a temporary pension may be granted to the officer whose office is abolished, on the condition that he shall hold himself ready to be recalled to service, and with the understanding that he will be re-employed as opportunity offers in preference to new applicants for office.
2. If the officer whose office is abolished is not qualified for other employment, or if there is no reason in the opinion of the Governor to expect that he can be shortly re-employed, a pension may be granted to him free from the conditions as to re-employment mentioned in this clause.
3. In the case of an officer whose office is abolished his pension shall be at the rate of the number of sixtieths of his salary exceeding the number of the completed years of his service by the numbers following (that is to say):
(a) In the case of an officer who has served twenty years..........10
(b) In the case of an officer who has served less than twenty years but not less than fifteen years, 8
(c) In the case of an officer who has served less than fifteen years but not less than ten years, 5
(d) In the case of an officer who has served less than ten years but not less than five years, 3
(e) In the case of an officer who has served less than five years, 2
4. No addition shall be made under this clause to an officer's period of service so as to entitle him to a higher pension than he would have been entitled to had he been retained in the service until he attained the age of sixty years.
No. 13.
1. Where a public officer has been permanently injured--
(a) in the actual discharge of his duty and
(b) without his own default and
(c) by some injury specifically attributable to the nature of his duty
and his retirement is thereby necessitated or materially accelerated an annual allowance may be granted to him in addition to any pension which he may be awarded not exceeding the undermentioned portion of his salary and emoluments at the date of the injury, viz. :-
When his capacity to contribute to his support is-- Slightly impaired, Five-sixtieths. Impaired, Ten-sixtieths. Materially impaired, Fifteen-sixtieths. Total destroyed, Twenty-sixtieths.2. Such allowance shall be less than the above-mentioned maximum by such amount as the Governor in Council, subject to the approval of the Secretary of State, shall think reasonable in the following cases :-
(a) Where the injured man has continued to serve for not less than one year after the injury in respect of which he retires;
(b) Where the injured man is fifty (50) years of age or upwards at the date of the injury; or
(c) Where the injury is not the sole cause of retirement, e.g., the retirement is caused partly by age or infirmity,
3. When the public officer so injured has less than ten years' service and he is not entitled to an ordinary pension he may receive in lieu of a gratuity an annual allowance of so many sixtieths as the years he has actually served in addition to the number of sixtieths that may be awarded to him under paragraphs (1) and (2) of this clause.
No. 14.
on pensioner's
If any pensioner under this Minute is appointed to an office under the Crown Pension to abate either in the Colony or elsewhere, then, during his tenure of such office, so much only, obtaining other if any, of his pension or compensation allowance shall be paid to him as with the public employment. emoluments of such office makes up an amount equal to the emoluments of the office which he held at the date of the grant of his pension or compensation allowance.
In calculating such amount in connection with Colonies having a different currency the standard dollar of this Colony shall be taken as equivalent to three shillings sterling.
No. 15.
Crown elsewhere
1. Subject to the provisions of this Minute, every public officer (other than a Where the officer Judge of the Supreme Court) who, having been borne on the Fixed Establishment of has served the the Colony for a period of at least twelve calendar months, leaves the service of the than in the Colony. Colony for other service under the Crown and who in respect of his aggregate service in the Colony and elsewhere might have been awarded, had it been wholly in the Colony,
a pension or retiring allowance under this Minute, may, on his ultimate retirement from the service of the Crown, be awarded a pension at the rate of one seven-hundred-and-twentieth of the amount of his annual salary at the date of his so leaving the service of the Colony as aforesaid for each calendar month of his service in the Colony, and in calculating such service in the Colony an addition may be made thereto which shall bear a like proportion to five years as his service in the Colony bears to the whole period of his employment in tropical climates; provided that no such addition shall be made unless such officer has been employed for ten years in all in tropical climates; and a further addition proportionate to his total public service may be in respect of the grant, if any, allowable under clause 3, paragraph 2; provided also that such additions shall in no case be greater than would make his total service under the Crown forty years.
2. Subject as aforesaid, every public officer (other than a Judge of the Supreme Court) who, having been in the service of the Crown elsewhere than in the Colony, is transferred from such service to the Fixed Establishment of the Colony, and who in respect of his aggregate service in the Colony and elsewhere might have been awarded, had it been wholly in the Colony, a pension or retiring allowance under this Minute, may, on his retirement from the service of the Colony, if he at the same time retires from the service of the Crown, and if he had served for a period of at least twelve months in the Colony, be awarded a pension at the rate of one seven-hundred-and-twentieth of the amount of his annual salary at the date of such retirement for each calendar month of his service in the Colony, and in every such case there may be added, at the discretion of the Governor in Council, in computing the period of the retiring officer's service in the Colony, a number of months not exceeding
(a) One-third of the aggregate of his service elsewhere than in the Colony, nor
(b) Two-thirds of his service in the Colony; nor
(c) In any case eighty-four months.
3. Subject as aforesaid, every Judge of the Supreme Court who is transferred to or from the service of the Colony from or to other service under the Crown and is not entitled to a pension under clause 2 of these Regulations shall, if his aggregate service under the Crown in this Colony and elsewhere would have entitled him had it been wholly in this Colony to a pension under that clause, be entitled on his ultimate retirement
Provided that no such allowance shall together with the pension exceed fifty to a pension at the rate of two seven-hundred-and-twentieths of the amount of the annual sixtieths of his salary and emoluments at the date of the injury.
340
How salary to be computed for
4. Notwithstanding anything hereinbefore contained a period not exceeding one year during which an officer is absent on leave without salary such leave being granted on grounds of public policy may be counted for the purpose of this clause as service on full pay.
No. 11.
1. For the purpose of computing retiring allowances, the salary of the permanent pension purposes. appointment held by the officer at the date of retirement will be taken if he has weld such office or an office with the same salary for a period of three years immediately preceding such date; otherwise the average amount of the salary of the permanent appointments held by the officer during the three years immediately preceding bis retirement will be taken.
Abolition of office.
Additional allow-
ance grantable in
cases of retirement
injuries received.
in consequence of
2. For the purpose of this clause Salary includes personal allowance, allowance for house rent, estimated value of free quarters, rations, and any other unquestionable remuneration for personal service and any fees paid out of the Treasury by way of salary, bnt so that the amount to be allowed for house rent or for estimated value of free quarters shall not exceed one-sixth, nor the amount to be allowed for fees one-fourth of the whole of the other emoluments of the office.
No. 12.
1. In case of the abolition of the office of an officer who is borne on the Fixed Establishment of the Colony, a temporary pension may be granted to the officer whose office is abolished, on the condition that he shall hold himself ready to be recalled to service, and with the understanding that he will be re-employed as opportunity offers in preference to new applicants for office.
2. If the officer whose office is abolished is not qualified for other employment, or if there is no reason in the opinion of the Governor to expect that he can be shortly re- employed, a pension may be granted to him free from the conditions as to re-employment mentioned in this clause.
3. In the case of an officer whose office is abolished his pension shall be at the rate of the number of sixtieths of his salary exceeding the number of the completed years of his service by the numbers following (that is to say):
(a) In the case of an officer who has served twenty years..........10
(b) In the case of an officer who has served less than twenty years
but not less than fifteen years,
(c) In the case of an officer who has served less than fifteen years
but not less than ten years,
5
(d) In the case of an officer who has served less than ten years
but not less than five years,
(e) In the case of an officer who has served less than five years,
4. No addition shall be made under this clause to an officer's period of service so as to entitle him to a higher pension than he would have been cutitled to had he been retained in the service until he attained the age of sixty years.
No. 13.
1. Where a public officer has been permanently injured--
(a) in the actual discharge of his duty and
(b) without his own default and
(c) by some injury specifically attributable to the nature of his duty
and his retirement is thereby necessitated or materially accelerated an annual allowance may be granted to him in addition to any pension which he may be awarded not exceeding the undermentioned portion of his salary and emoluments at the date of the injury, viz. :-
When his capacity to contribute to his support is--
Slightly impaired,
Impaired,
Materially impaired, .
Total destroyed,.
.Five-sixtieths.
.Ten-sixtieths.
.Fifteen-sixtieths. .Twenty-sixtieths.
2. Such allowance shall be less than the above-mentioned maximum by such amount as the Governor in Council, subject to the approval of the Secretary of State, shall think reasonable in the following cases :-
(a) Where the injured man has continued to serve for not less than one year
after the injury in respect of which he retires;
(b) Where the injured man is fifty (50) years of age or upwards at the date
of the injury; or
(c) Where the injury is not the sole cause of retirement, e, the retirement
is caused partly by age or infirmity,
3. When the public officer so injured has less than ten years' service and he is not entitled to an ordinary pension he may receive in lieu of a gratuity an annual allowance of so many sixtieths as the years he has actually served in addition to the number of sixtieths that may be awarded to him under paragraphs (1) and (2) of this clause.
No. 14.
on pensioner's
If any pensioner under this Minute is appointed to an office under the Crown Pension to abate either in the Colony or elsewhere, then, during his tenure of such office, so much only, obtaining other if any, of his pension or compensation allowance shall be paid to him as with the public employment. emoluments of such office makes up an amount equal to the emoluments of the office which he held at the date of the grant of his pension or compensation allowance.
In calculating such amount in connection with Colonies having a different currency the standard dollar of this Colony shall be taken as equivalent to three shillings sterling.
No. 15.
Crown elsewhere
1. Subject to the provisions of this Minute, every public officer (other than a Where the officer Judge of the Supreme Court) who, having been borne on the Fixed Establishment of has served the the Colony for a period of at least twelve calendar mouths, leaves the service of the than in the Colony. Colony for other service under the Crown and who in respect of his aggregate service in the Colony and elsewhere might have been awarded, had it been wholly in the Colony,
a pension or retiring allowance under this Minute, may, on his ultimate retirement from the service of the Crown, be awarded a pension at the rate of one seven-hundred-and- twentieth of the amount of his annual salary at the date of his so leaving the service of the Colony as aforesaid for each calendar month of his service in the Colony, and in calculating such service in the Colony an addition may be made thereto which shall bear a like proportion to five years as his service in the Colony bears to the whole period of his employment in tropical climates; provided that no such addition shall be made unless such officer has been employed for ten years in all in tropical climates; and a further addition proportionate to his total public service may be in respect of the grant, if any, allowable under clause 3, paragraph 2; provided also that such additious shall in no case be greater than would make his total service under the Crown forty years.
2. Subject as aforesaid, every public officer (other than a Judge of the Supreme Court) who, having been in the service of the Crown elsewhere than in the Colony, is transferred from such service to the Fixed Establishment of the Colony, and who in respect of his aggregate service in the Colony and elsewhere might have been awarded, had it been wholly in the Colony, a pension or retiring allowance under this Minute, may, on his retirement from the service of the Colony, if he at the same time retires from the service of the Crown, and if he had served for a period of at least twolve months in the Colony, be awarded a pension at the rate of one seven-hundred-and- twentieth of the amount of his annual salary at the date of such retirement for each calendar month of his service in the Colony, and in every such case there may be adde 1, at the discretion of the Governor in Council, in computing the period of the retiring officer's service in the Colony, a number of months not exceeding
(a) One-third of the aggregate of his service elsewhere than in the Colony, nor (b) Two-thirds of his service in the Colony; nor
(e) In any case eighty-four mouths.
3. Subject as aforesaid, every Judge of the Supreme Court who is transferred to or from the service of the Colony from or to other service under the Crown and is not entitled to a pension under clause 2 of these Regulations shall, if his aggregate service under the Crown in this Colony and elsewhere would have entitled him had it been wholly in this Colony to a pension under that clause, be entitled on his ultimate retirement
Provided that no such allowance shall together with the pension exceed fifty to a pension at the rate of two seven-hundred-and-twentieths of the amount of the cuntal sixtieths of his salary and emoluments at the date of the injury.
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