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(ii)
(a) For officers whose country of origin is Great Britain and Ireland,
payment will be at the following rates per road mile once in each direction from the officer's declared place of residence to the airport or port of departure and vice versa when arriving on vacation leave.
Adults (including children aged 14 and over)
Children (3 or over but under 14 years)
27 cents
14 cents
For the purpose of Establishment Regulation 1420, Tilbury docks and London Airport will be taken as London, and all mileages will be calculated from the A.A./R.A.C. Members Handbook. For those officers whose country of origin is Ireland, mileage, excluding sea travel, will be c aculated from or to London, in the case of air travel, and from or to a seaport in Great Britain when passages from or to Hong Kong are arranged by sea (but see (c) below).
(b) For officers whose country of origin is elsewhere, payment will be limited
to the actual rail fares (including sleepers and/or sea fares (including cabins) of a class equivalent to Second Class rail and First Class sea in Great Britain.
(c) When a journey within an officer's country of origin is of such a distance
that air would be considered the normal means of travel (i.e. about 250 miles) Government will either provide an air ticket within the officer's passage allowance or reimburse him for air travel by a scheduled flight if the cost exceeds his normal entitlement under Establishment Regulation 1420. Alternatively, if the officer prefers, he will be allowed to
Officers travel by sleeper for such journeys and be reimbursed the cost. flying from Hong Kong to Dublin via Heathrow will be allowed the normal commercial fare.
(iii) The total amount payable to an officer under Establishment Regulation 1420
will not exceed the aggregate of the amounts payable in respect of six adults, or of the number of persons travelling, whichever is the less.
(iv) Claims must be submitted to the Accountant General, in cases where the officer
goes on leave and returns to duty, within six months of his return to duty; in other cases within six months of the journey being made; and must give the points of departure and arrival.
(v)
Establishment Regulation 1420 does not apply to an officer who is dismissed, whose services are terminated, or who resigns and is not granted a homeward passage.
FAILURE TO TAKE UP APPOINTMENT RESIGNATION
(1) Officers on first appointment
(a) An officer who fails to take up the post to which he is appointed or leaves or gives notice of his intention to resign from the service before completion of his full tour of service, will be required to refund to the Hong Kong Government that proportion of the cost of outward passages to Hong Kong (including associated baggage and travelling expenses) provided in that tour for himself and his family which the uncompleted portion of full tour bears to the full tour.
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