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THE HONGKONG

Government Gazette.

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No. 50.

Published by Authority.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 2ND NOVEMBER, 1895.

日二初月一十年五十九百八十一 簿一十四第

VOL. LXI.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 452.

號十五第 4 日六十月九年未乙

The following Minute by His Excellency the Governor is substituted for that published under

Government Notification No. 271 of 3rd July, 1894.

By Command.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 25th October, 1895.

MINUTE

AS TO

PENSION RULES

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,

Colonial Secretary.

Framed under Ordinance No. 10 of 1862 by the Governor,

Dated the 16th October, 1895.

No. 1.

pensions to be

1. Subject to the provisions of this Minute, every Public Officer borne on the Fixed Persons to whom, Establishment of the Colony (other than a Judge of the Supreme Court, or members of and at what rates the Police Force who are entitled to retiring allowances under Ordinance 14 of 1887) guanted. who has served ten years or upwards, and whose annual salary exceeds $240. may be awarded, on his retirement, a pension at the rate of fifteen-sixtieths of such salary, with an addition of one-sixtieth in respect of each complete year of such service in excess of ten, until the maximum of forty-sixtieths is reached.

2. No officer whose annual salary does not exceed $240 may be awarded a pension, but a compassionate allowance may be granted in special cases of long and faithful service, provided that such compassionate allowance shall not exceed two-thirds of the rate of pension grantable to an officer under paragraph 1.

3. No officer may be awarded a pension in respect of any service under the age of sixteen years, nor in respect of his service in any of the following capacities, viz., Private Secretary or Aide-de-Camp to the Governor; Clerk to a Judge of the Supreme Court, unless in the permanent Civil Service; Apprentice in a public department; Normal Student or Pupil Teacher.

4. Every officer otherwise qualified for a pension who is constrained from infirmity of mind or body to leave the public service before the completion of ten years' service may be awarded a gratuity at the rate of half a month's salary for each complete six

months of service.

5. An officer who has been transferred to or from the service of the Crown in this Colony from or to the service of the Crown elsewhere will not be awarded a pension or gratuity under this clause, but his case will be dealt with under clause 15 of this Minute,