189382-1932-Pension-Regulations-B — Page 3

THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 9, 1932.

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Provided that of any period of service paid for out of an open vote only two-thirds shall be taken into account.

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9. Any period during which an officer, absent on leave War service from this Colony, has, with the consent of the Secretary reckoned. of State or of the Governor, served with His Britannic Majesty's armed forces during the Great War, or in any other capacity connected with the state of war, may be reckoned as service on full pay for the purposes of these regulations.

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10. Where an officer has been seconded from a pen- Officers sionable office to temporary employment on the Harbour, secunded Railway Construction or other similar works under Govern- works, etc. ment control or to a non-pensionable office, the period of such temporary employment shall be reckoned for the purpose of pension, gratuity or other allowance, provided that-

(a) the officer retires in circumstances in which he would otherwise be eligible for a pension, and

(b) for the purposes of these regulations he shall be deemed to have held during the period of such seconded service an office to which are attached pensionable emolu- ments equal to those which including normal increments he would have drawn in the office from which he has been seconded.

11. Pensions and gratuities shall be computed-

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(a) where an officer has held one office, the pensionable pensions to emoluments of which are not based on a scale of increments, for a period of not less than three years immediately pre- ceding the date of his retirement, on the pensionable emolu- ments payable to him at that date in respect of that office;

(b) where an officer has at any time during such period of three years been transferred from one such office to an- other, but his pensionable emoluments have not been changed by reason of such transfer or transfers, on the pensionable emoluments payable to him at the date of his retirement in respect of the office then held by him;

(c) where an officer has held an office or has served as an officer of a class, the pensionable emoluments of which are based on a scale of increments, for a period of not less than three years immediately preceding the date of his re- tirement, on the pensionable emoluments payable to him at that date in respect of that office, or as an officer of that class :

Provided that where two or more classes are subject to one time scale, they shall be treated for this purpose as one class:

(d) in all other cases, on the average amount of the pen- sionable emoluments payable to the Officer during a period of three years immediately preceding the date of his retire-

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Provided that in the case of an officer who has received promotion within three years of the date of his retirement any service in an office or class in which such officer served for a period of not less than three years shall, for the purpose

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