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1933.

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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 20,

invalided

32. An officer who retires on account of infirmity of Officer mind or body and who has not completed the minimum period with under of service in the Police Force qualifying for a pension, may be ten years granted a gratuity not exceeding five times the annual amount of the pension which might have been granted had there been no qualifying period.

33. When an officer has been permanently injured-

(1) in the actual discharge of his duty; and

(2) without his own default; and

(3) by some injury specifically attributable to the nature

of his duties,

and his retirement is thereby necessitated or materially ac- celerated, he may receive in respect of such injury an addition to service for calculating his pension as follows:-

When his capacity to contribute to his support is certified by three Government medical officers to be

slightly impaired, not exceeding six years;

impaired, not exceeding twelve years;

materially impaired, not exceeding eighteen years;

totally destroyed, not exceeding twenty four years:

Provided that no pension thus increased shall exceed the salary, including pensionable allowances, of his permanent rank at the time of injury.

service.

Injury,

before

34. When an officer so injured has less than ten years Injury service and is not entitled to an ordinary pension he may completion receive in lieu of a gratuity an annual allowance of so many of 10 years 1/720ths of his salary as the months he has actually served service. in addition to the number of 1/720ths that may be awarded to him under the preceding regulation.

COUNCIL CHABMER,

12th October, 1933.

;

R. A. C. NORTH,

Clerk of Councils.