Mr. Shipway,
Pension
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Mr.Osborne of the Admiralty, (Extension 464), came to see me yesterday about the Hong Kong Police Pension Regulations. I gather that a
Sergeant in the Admiralty Dockyard Police has just done three months' imprisonment with hard labour; and that since the Hong Kong Police Pension scheme is
imported by Order in Council into the conditions of service of the Dockyard Police,this man's pension has automatically ceased under paragraph 14 of the Hong Kong Police Regulations. The man had now appealed to the Admiralty for his pension to berestored. The Admiralty regard his application with sympathy and would be glad to restore his pension, if possible. They accordingly wanted to know whether the pension
of a Colonial Policeman could be restored in
similar circumstances. So far as I can see from
the Regulation, this is not possible, but the
Admiralty are going to write in about it and we can then go into the question thoroughly.
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In the course of our discussion, however, we were at a loss to understanding the meaning of the word "not" in line 5 of Regulation 14 On the face of it, this word seems absurd because apparently a man sentenced to more than 12 months' imprisonment with hard labour would not lose his pension while a man sentenced to one day with hard labour would.
After Mr.Osborne had gone, Mr.Beckett and I
examined the F.M.S.Pensions Enactment and we found
that in Section 12 (which contains a similar provision) in place of the word "not" is the word "or", which
makes sense. Mr. Ehrhardt has since told me that the
word
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