189379-1932-Pension-Regulations-A — Page 1

HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 9, 1932.

No. 774.

Hong Kong.

Regulations made by the Governor in Council with the sanction of the Secretary of State, under section 3 of the Pensions Ordinance, 1932, Ordinance No. 21 of 1932, on the 9th day of December, 1932.

Pension Regulations A.

of Pension

1. These Regulations, which may be cited as Pension Application Regulations A, shall be subject in all respects to the provisions Regulations of the Pensions Ordinance, 1932, and shall apply to all officers A. who had been confirmed to the permanent establishment of this Colony and were in the service of this Colony, or in other public service after transfer from the service of this Colony, at the commencement of the said Ordinance and who shall not have elected, by written notification addressed to and received by either the Colonial Secretary in the Colony or the Crown Agents for the Colonies on or before the thirtieth day of June, 1933, to be bound by Pension Regulations B instead of by these Regulations. Any such election shall be irrevocable.

Part I.

GENERAL REGULATIONS.

service

etc.

2. Subject to these regulations, service qualifying for Period of pension, gratuity or other allowance, as the case may be, shall qualifying be the inclusive period between the date from which, in re- for pension, spect of any office, an officer commences to draw salary or half salary from the funds of this Colony and the date of his leav- ing the service of the Colony, without deduction of any period during which he has been absent on leave.

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granted.

3. Every officer, other than a judge, holding a pension- Pensions to able office in this Colony, who has been in the service of this what rates Colony for not less than ten years, may on his retirement be to be granted a pension at the rate of one seven-hundred-and twen- tieth (1/720th) of his pensionable emoluments in respect of each complete month of his pensionable service, with a climatic addition of sixty seven-hundred-and-twentieths (60/720ths) of his pensionable emoluments, subject to the limit prescribed in section 11 of the Ordinance.

Provided that any such officer, other than a judge, who has not completed ten years' pensionable service but who is per- mitted to retire on the ground of infirmity of mind or body, may nevertheless be granted a pension at the said rate, and with the said addition, if-

(a) at the time of his retirement ten calendar years have elapsed from the date on which he first commenced to draw salary from the funds of this Colony, and

(b) he has been continuously in the public service in this. Colony throughout such period of ten years.

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