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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 12, 1934.

3. Regulation No. 16 (1) is amended by the substitution of the words ", or in consequence of a reorganization designed to effect greater efficiency and economy,

for the words "or

of facilitating improvement in the organization of the depart- ment to which he belongs by which greater efficiency or economy can be effected,'

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4. Regulations Nos. 18 and 21 are rescinded.

5. The following proviso is added to regulation No. 19:--

Provided that where a transfer from a pensionable to a non-pensionable office is made to provide continued employ- ment for an officer who, on the ground of physical infirmity, has become incapable of retaining his pensionable office, then the whole of his service shall be deemed to be service in a non-pensionable office unless, by his subsequent retransfer to a pensionable office, his case is brought within the provisions of regulation 8.

6. Regulation No. 25, in Part II, is amended by the dele- tion of the figures and word "8, 14, 15 and 18" and by the substitution therefor of the figures and word “14 and 15”.

7. Regulation No. 26, in Part II, is rescinded and the following regulation is substituted therefor :---

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26.—(1) Where the other public service of an officer has Pension for been wholly under one or more of the scheduled Governments, wholly and he has held a pensionable office in this Colony for a period within the of at least twelve months, and his aggregate service would have group. qualified him, had it been wholly in this Colony, for a pension under the Ordinance, he may, on his retirement 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, be granted a pension from the funds of this Colony of such an amount as shall bear the same proportion 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 aggregate amount of his pensionable emoluments throughout his service in the group.

(2) In determining for the purposes of this regulation the pension for which an officer would have been eligible if his service had been wholly in this Colony,

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

(b) no regard shall be had to regulations 16 and 17;

(c) regard shall be had to the condition that pension may not exceed two-thirds of the final pensionable emoluments;

(d) no period of other public service under any scheduled Government which does not grant a pension or gratuity to the officer shall be taken into account.

(3) For the purposes of this regulation the aggregate amount of his pensionable emoluments shall be taken as the total amount of salary which the officer would have drawn and the total amount of the other pensionable emoluments which he would have enjoyed had he been on duty on full pay in his substantive office or offices throughout his period of service in the group subsequent to the attainment of the age applicable to his case as prescribed in section 6 of the Ordinance.

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