Clause 11(1)(c)
I do wonder how relevant it is, for officers appointed now and even more so after 1997, to perpetuate the concept of one public service whether one is working for the Hong Kong Government or one of the great list of Governments mentioned at the back of the draft regulations. I would have thought that the inclusion of the right to a deferred pension on voluntary withdrawal in the new pension scheme was a good reason to drop everything to do with other public service from the new scheme; this might throw up some anomalies but these could be dealt with under clause 18.
Clause 11 (1)(h)
It seems to me that when an officer is no longer able to do his present job for medical reasons the first option should be to move him to a job which he can do, and not automatic early retirement. There must be plenty of jobs in the Hong Kong civil service where it is necessary to be 100% physically fit but that for the majority of jobs this is not the case. If redeployment involves a drop in salary it becomes necessary to minimise the effect of the drop in salary when calculating the pension on eventual retirement, in some way.
Clause 20 (1)
I think it is unusual not to pay a benefit on death in the first 2 years' of service. It would be better to have the right to withold the benefit where it can be shown that an applicant for a job did not answer questions about his health truthfully.
Clause 20 (3)
As the benefit in 20(1) is the greater of (a) and (b), I would have thought that the benefit described in 20(3) could be paid to all pensioners and not just those who commuted less than 50% of their pensions.
Clause 20(7)
Is this right? I have not time to think through all the ramifications but I would of thought that there was only the one death gratuity for which, in calculating (b) of clause 20(1), it was necessary to add all the maximum pension gratuities together and knock off anything already received.
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