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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1990

INDIVIDUAL

CASE CIRCUMSTANCES FAMILY AND THE SUSTAINED, RANGING ONLY ONE DAY'S SICK SIR DAVID EXPLAINED.

"THE AMOUNT PAYABLE DEPENDS ON (SUCH AS WHETHER THERE ARE OTHER WAGE EARNERS IN THE NUMBER OF DEPENDANTS) AND THE GRAVITY OF INJURIES FROM A MINIMUN OF $270 FOR INJURY RESULTING IN LEAVE, TO A MAXIMUM OF $87,170 FOR DEATH,

LAW TO

PER CENT IF

THE CHIEF SECRETARY POINTED OUT THAT BOTH THE CRIMINAL AND ENFORCEMENT INJURY COMPENSATION BOARDS HAD THE DISCRETIONARY POWER INCREASE THE "NORMAL" RATE OF COMPENSATION BY UP TO 100 THE INCIDENT WAS CONSIDERED BY THE BOARDS AS A ASSISTING IN THE PREVENTION AND DETECTION OF CRIME.

THE

BOARDS'

"COURAGEOUS ACT" IN

ΤΟ EXTEND HE SAID ONE RECOMMENDATION OF THE RECENT REVIEW WAS

ΤΟ

WHO, INCLUDE VICTIMS OF THE

DISCRETION SCOPE

CLAIM, HAD MADE EXEMPLARY SUBSEQUENT TO THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO A

INCONVENIENCE EFFORTS, IN THE FACE

PERSONAL OF

EMBARRASSMENT, IN THE ARREST AND DANGER TO ASSIST THE POLICE

PROSECUTION OF

OFFENDER OR SUSPECTED OFFENDER.

"THIS EXTENSION OF THE DISCRETION WOULD BE CONSISTENT WITH RATIONALE FOR EXISTING DISCRETION," HE SAID.

ON THE PART OF

THE QUESTION

CONCERNING ASSISTANCE

OR AN

THE

PROVIDED

DEPENDANTS WOULD

WHEN A CIVIL SERVANT DIED OR WAS INJURED ON DUTY, SIR DAVID SAID THAT IF A CIVIL SERVANT DIED WHILE ON DUTY THE OFFICER'S BE ELIGIBLE FOR

―

(A) A DEATH GRATUITY;

(B) EX-GRATIA PAYMENT FOR UNTAKEN LEAVE;

(C) ENTITLEMENT

UNDER EITHER THE WIDOWS' AND CHILDREN'S PENSION SCHEME IF

PENSION SCHEME OR WIDOWS' AND ORPHANS' HE HAD BEEN A CONTRIBUTOR;

SURVIVED

(D) A DEPENDANT'S PENSION IF THE DECEASED OFFICER WAS

OR LUMP SUM COMPENSATION BY SPOUSE, CHILDREN OR PARENTS PAYABLE UNDER THE EMPLOYEES COMPENSATION ORDINANCE; AND

(E) FUNERAL EXPENSES OF $23,300.

AS FOR AN OFFICER WHO HAD BEEN INJURED ON DUTY, SIR DAVID HE WOULD BE GIVEN PAID SICK LEAVE AND FREE MEDICAL TREATMENT.

SAID

TO CONTRIBUTE TO "IF PERMANENTLY INJURED AND IF HIS CAPACITY HIS OWN SUPPORT BECOMES IMPAIRED AT OR AFTER RETIREMENT BECAUSE OF THE INJURY, AN ADDITIONAL PENSION IS PAYABLE ON RETIREMENT.

THE

"THE INJURED OFFICER CAN OPT FOR LUMP

ORDINANCE IN COMPENSATION EMPLOYEES

SUM COMPENSATION UNDER LIEU OF THE

ADDITIONAL

"

PENSION, HE SAID.

POINTED OUT

THAT

THE

DUTY-RELATED DEATH AND INJURED BENEFITS FOR CIVIL

DAVID SIR

IN PLACE SINCE 1949.

PROVISIONS EXISTING

SERVANTS HAD BEEN

OF

/THE LEVEL

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