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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.

of 1932,

on the

day of

1932.

2

Pension Regulations B.

of Pension

1. These Regulations, which may be cited as Pension Application Regulations B, shall be subject in all respects to the provisions Regulations of the Pensions Ordinance, 1932, and shall apply to all officers B. to whom such provisions apply who enter the service of this Colony after the commencement of the said Ordinance. They shall also apply to those who being in the service, or in other public service after transfer from the service of this Colony, at such commencement shall 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 these Regulations instead of by Pension Regulations A. Any such election shall be irrevocable.

Part I.

GENERAL REGULATIONS.

2. Subject to these regulations, service qualifying for Period of pension, gratuity or other allowance, as the case may be, shall service

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 etc. salary from the funds of this Colony and the date of his leav- ing the service of the Colony, without deduction of any period doring which he has been absent on leave.

at what

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 whom and Colony for not less than ten years, may on his retirement be rates to be granted a pension at the rate of one six-hundredth (1/600th) granted. of his pensionable emoluments in respect of each complete month of his pensionable service, 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, 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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