189382-1932-Pension-Regulations-B — Page 9

THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 9, 1932.

"Service in the group" means public service under the Government of this Colony and under a scheduled Government or Governments.

25. Subject to the succeeding regulations, the provisions Application

of Regula- of regulations 8, 14, 15 and 18 shall apply to the case of an tions in officer who has been transferred to or from the service of Part I. this Colony from or to other public service, and the provisions of regulations 2, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10 and 11 shall apply to the case of an officer so transferred as if his whole service had been in this Colony.

Provided that in the application of regulation 14 to the cases falling under the limitation of section 11 (2) of the Ordinance the words "such pension" in that regulation shall be taken to mean the amount of pension which he might have drawn from the funds of this Colony if he had not elected for a gratuity and reduced pension.

group.

26.--(1) Where the other public service of an officer Pension for

service has been wholly under one or more of the scheduled Govern-

wholly ments, and he has held a pensionable office in this Colony for within the a period of at least twelve consecutive months, and his ag- gregate service would have rendered him eligible, had it been wholly in this Colony, for a pension under the Ordinance. he may, on his ultimate retirement from the public service in circumstances in which he is permitted by the law or regula- tions of the service in which he is las employed to retire on pension or gratuity, be granted a pension from the funds of this Colony of such an amount as shall bear the same pro- portion to the amount of pension for which he would have been eligible had his service been wholly in this Colony, as the aggregate amount of his pensionable emoluments during. his service in this Colony shall bear to the total amount made up of such aggregate amount together with the aggregate amount of his nonsionable emoluments from any of the sche- duled Governments:

Provided that in determining the pension for which he would have been eligible if his service had been wholly in this Colony-

(a) the final pensionable emoluments shall be taken to be those of his last period of service in the group;

(b) no regard shall be had to regulations 6 and 17; (c) regard shall be had to the condition that pension may not exceed two-thirds of the highest pensionable emoluments;

Provided further that any period of other public service under any scheduled Government by which no gratuity or pension is granted to an officer shall not be taken into account either in determining the amount of pension for which he would have been eligible if his service had been entirely in the Colony, or in calculating the aggregate amount of his pensionable emoluments.

Provided further that where an officer entered the public service prior to the 1st day of January, 1930, his pension in respect of his service in this Colony may be calculated as

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