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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER.
Gratuities
where length of service does not qualify for peusion.
A bolition of office.
Injury.
Officers transferred to other public
service and
retiring after less
than twelve months' employment in last service.
Allowance
in certain cases to
hospital
matrons and nursing- sisters, with
34. (1) Where an officer who has been transferred to or from the service of this Colony from or to other public service retires from the public service in circumstances in which he is permitted by the law or regulations of the service in which he is last employed to retire on pension or gratuity, but has not completed in the aggregate the minimum period of service qualifying him for a pension, he may be granted from the funds of this Colony a gratuity not exceeding five times the annual amount of the pension which, if there had been no qualifying period, might have been granted to him if his case had fallen under regulation 26, 27. 28. 29 or 30, as the case may be.
(2) Where such an officer is compulsorily retired from the public service in circumstances mentioned in regulation. 16, he may, if at the time he is in the service of this Colony, be granted a special gratuity equal to one-half of the gratuity which might have been granted to him if his total pensionable service had been in this Colony, together with the gratuity, if any, which may be granted to him under paragraph (1) of this regulation.
3) Where such an officer is compulsorily retired from the public service in circumstances mentioned in regulation 17, he may, if at the time he is in the service of this Colony, be treated as if he had no other public service, but he shal not be granted in addition the gratuity for which he is eligible under paragraph (1) of this regulation.
35. Where an officer who is transferred to other public service is not granted a pension or gratuity in respect of his employment in the service in which he is last employed, solely by reason of the fact that he has not completed twelve months service therein, he shall not, on that account, be disqualified from receiving a pension or gratuity from the funds of this Colony, if otherwise eligible therefor.
36. Where a European matron or a European nursing- sister has been employed in other public service as a qualified. nursing-sister or matron, which employment was obtained by or through the Overseas Nursing Association, and has held a pensionable office in this Colony on or at any time after the other service. 1st day of January, 1926, as a matron or nursing-sister in a Government hospital for a period, which need not be continuous, of not less than three years, and she is not eligible for pension, gratuity or other retiring allowance under the regulations contained in Part I, but her aggregate service in this Colony and in other public service as aforesaid make up a period, which need not be continuous, of not less than fifteen years, or ten years if she is compelled by reason of ill-health, not caused by her own misconduct, to relinquish her overseas nursing career, she may, subject as hereinafter provided, on her ultimate retirement from the public service be granted an allowance calculated at the rate of eight shillings and four pence (8s, 4d.) per annum for each complete month of her pensionable service in this Colony.
Provided that, except in the case of retirement, which in the opinion of the Governor in Council is ultimate re- tirement on account of infirmity of mind or body, or which is from a Colony in which the age of voluntary retirement is less than fifty years, no such allowance shall be payable
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