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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 9,

Transfer

held a non-pensionable office in the public service in this Colony for not less than three years and who, at the date of his death, was in receipt of a salary as defined in the Widows' and Orphans' Pension Ordinance, 1908, of less than $480 per annum.

19. Where

an officer has been transferred from a pensionable office to a non-pensionable office then at the option non-pension of such officer:

from pen- sionable to

able office.

Gratuity where service insufficient

for pension.

Gratuity when nothing else is provided.

Commuta- tion.

Conditions of pension.

Interpreta- tion.

(a) his service in the non-pensionable office may be reckoned as though it were service in a pensionable office at the pensionable emoluments payable to him immediately prior to such transfer; or

(b) his service in the pensionable office may be reckoned as though it were service in a non-pensionable office.

20. Every officer, otherwise qualified for a pension, who has not completed the minimum period of service qualifying for a pension, may be granted on retirement a gratuity not exceeding five times the annual amount of the pension which might have been granted if there had been no qualifying period but in calculating such annual amount no climatic addition shall be included.

21. A gratuity or annual allowance may on his retire- ment be granted to any officer holding a non-pensionable office to whom the provisions of regulation 18 do not apply or to any person paid out of an open vote who has completed ten years faithful service. The amount of any gratuity or annual allowance granted under this regulation shall be deter- mined by the Governor in Council.

22. In lieu of the grant of a pension there may, with the approval of the Governor, be granted to an officer of the lower grades of the Government Service if he intends to reside in India or in China, a capital sum equal to the amount of five annual payments, but no such capital sum shall ordinarily be paid in any case of retirement on the ground of ill-health: Provided that for the purposes of this regulation such annual payments shall be the remaining portions after deduction of the annual contribution, if any, due in respect of widows and orphans pension.

23. It shall be a condition of the grant of every pension or other allowance that the Governor in Council may cancel or reduce it if it be shown to have been obtained by the wilful suppression of material facts or to have been granted in ignorance of facts which, had they been known before the retirement of the officer, would have justified his dismissal or a reduction of his salary.

Part II.

SPECIAL REGULATIONS FOR OFFICERS WITH OTHER

PUBLIC SERVICE.

24. In this Part-

"Scheduled Government" means any Government or service included in the Schedule to these regulations and