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7. Every Probationer on arrival in the Colony will be subject to any regulations as to Probationers (not inconsistent with this paper) which may from time to time be made by the Government of the Colony, including regulations as to examinations in native languages, &c. As a rule he will be required to spend some time at Canton or elsewhere in China in order to study Chinese and subsequently to proceed to India to study Police work, drill, and Hindustani. A Probationer who has passed the prescribed examinations will be paid at the rate of $300 per annum with free quarters until he obtains a substantive appointment. Should a Probationer remain three years, after passing his examinations, without obtaining a substantive appointment, his salary will be increased to £350.
8. Any Probationer who may fail to pass the prescribed examinations within four years, or be found unfit for Police duties, will be liable to removal from the service. Any Probationer so removed from the service will be granted a free passage to England, provided that he utilizes such passage within three months from the date of his removal.
9. The existing regulations as to leave of absence are as follows :---
(a) Subject to the necessities of the service, leave of absence on half salary may be granted to members of the permanent Government Service after a period of four and a half years' resident service without any special grounds. It may be given before the expiration of that period in cases of serious indisposition or of urgent private affairs. the absence of special grounds, the leave in such case must not exceed one-sixth of the officer's resident service; on special grounds it may exceed that period by six months.
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(b) The Governor will not in any case grant leave on half salary for a period of more than nine months at a time but that period may be extended by the Secretary of State on the ground of ill-health or of urgent private affairs or for such other reasons as may appear to him to be sufficient. In exceptional cases extensions of leave without pay may be granted.
(e) In addition to the above, vacation leave on full pay may be granted, if no incon- venience or expense is caused thereby, not exceeding three months during, and in respect of, any two consecutive years.
(d) At the request of any officer who may be eligible for the grant of any period of leave on half salary, the Governor may cominute the whole or any portion of such leave into one-half the period of leave with full salary, provided that the total period of com- muted and uncommuted leave, together with any period of vacation leave that may be granted, does not exceed ten mouths at a time. No officer can claim as a right to commute his leave in this manner, the decision whether commutation can or cannot be allowed being wholly within the discretion of the Governor.
10. The present rule as to superannuation is that in the case of ill-health an officer may be allowed to retire on a pension after ten full years' resident service; otherwise he must have attained the age of 55. For ten full years' resident service fifteen- sixtieths of the average annual salary of the retiring officer's fixed appointments for the three years prior to retirement may be awarded, to which one-sixtieth
may be added for each additional year's service; but no addition will be made in respect of any service beyond 35 years. For pension purposes absence on vacation leave counts as full service, and leave on half pay as half service.
11. A deduction of four per cent, is made from the salaries of all members of the permanent service, including Police Probationers, as a contribution towards the provision of pensions for the widows and orphans of Public Officers.
An Officer may also contribute at the rate of four per cent. of any duty allowance drawn by him, but is not required to do so. The choice once made as to contributing four per cent. of duty allowance will be final and will apply to the whole of the officer's service.
12. The currency of Hong Kong is based on the silver dollar. For purposes of local payment salaries fixed in sterling are converted into dollars at a rate fixed by the Government, and based upon the average exchange value of the deltar during the month** ending on the fifteenth day of the month for which salary is to be paid. At present, however, if the average exchange rate for any month exceeds 38., salaries are converted- at 2s to the dollar.
13. The Police Service of Hong Kong is at present classified as follows, but no guarantee is given that the numbers and conditions of the appointments or the salaries attached to them will remain unaltered, or that they will be exclusively confined to officers originally appointed as Probationers.
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Assistant Superintendent (one), Salary £400 a year rising by annual increments of £30 to £560 a year, with a duty allowance of £100 a year.
Deputy Superintendent (one). Salary £600 a year rising by triennial increments of £40 to £720 a year with a duty allowance of £120 a year.
Captain Superintendent (one). Salary £800 a year rising by triennial increments of £100 to £1,000 a year with a duty allowance of £150 a year.
A "duty allowance" is a non-pensionable allowance paid only while an officer is actually serving in the Colony.
COLONIAL OFFICE,
April 1912.
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NOTE-Further inforukition can be obtained on personal application at the Eastern Department of the Colonial Office.
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