THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 2ND NOVEMBER, 1895.
2. Such allowance shall be less than the above-mentioned maximum by such amount as the Governor in Council, subject to the approval of the Secretary of State, sball think reasonable in the following cases :-
(a) Where the injured man has continued to serve for not less than one year
after the injury in respect of which he retires;
(b) Where the injured man is fifty (50) years of age or upwards at the date
of the injury; or
(c) Where the injury is not the sole cause of retirement, i.e., the retirement is
caused partly by age or infirmity.
3. When the public officer so injured has less than ten years' service and he is not entitled to an ordinary pension he may receive in lieu of a gratuity an annual allowance of so many sixtieths as the years he has actually served in addition to the number of sixtieths that may be awarded to him under paragraphs (1) and (2) of this clause.
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on pensioner's
If any pensioner under this Minute is appointed to an office under the Crown either Pension to abate in the Colony or elsewhere, then, during his tenure of such office, so much only, if any, obtaining other of his pension or compensation allowance shall be paid to him as with the emoluments public employment. of such office makes up an amount equal to the emoluments of the office which he held at the date of the grant of his pension or compensation allowance.
In calculating such amount in connection with Colonies having a different currency the standard dollar of this Colony shall be taken as equivalent to three shillings sterling.
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has served the
1. Subject to the provisions of this Minute, every public officer (other than a Judge Where the officer of the Supreme Court) who, having been borne on the Fixed Establishment of the Colony Crown elsewhere for a period of at least twelve calendar months, leaves the service of the Colony for other than in the Colony. service under the Crown and who in respect of his aggregate service in the Colony and elsewhere might have been awarded, had it been wholly in the Colony, a pension or retiring allowance under this Minute, may, on his ultimate retirement from the service of the Crown, be awarded a pension at the rate of one seven-hundred-and-twentieth of the amount of his annual salary at the date of his so leaving the service of the Colony as aforesaid for each calendar month of his service in the Colony, and in calculating such service in the Colony an addition may be made thereto which shall bear a like proportion to five years as his service in the Colony bears to the whole period of his employment in tropical climates; provided that no such addition shall be made unless such officer has been employed for ten years in all in tropical climates; and a further addition proportionate to his total public service may be made in respect of the grant, if any, allowable under clause 3, paragraph 2; provided also that such additions shall in no case be greater than would make his total service under the Crown forty years.
2. Subject as aforesaid, every public officer (other than a Judge of the Supreme Court) who, having been in the service of the Crown elsewhere than in the Colony, is transferred from such service to the Fixed Establishment of the Colony, and who in respect of his aggregate service in the Colony and elsewhere might have been awarded, had it been wholly in the Colony, a pension or retiring allowance under this Minute, may, on his retirement from the service of the Colony, if he at the same time retires from the service of the Crown, and if he had served for a period of at least twelve months in the Colony, be awarded a pension at the rate of one seven-hundred-and-twentieth of the amount of his annual salary at the date of such retirement for each calendar month of his service in the Colony, and in every such case there may be added, at the discretion of the Governor in Council, in computing the period of the retiring officer's service in the Colony, a number of months not exceeding
(a) One-third of the aggregate of his service elsewhere than in the Colony, nor (b) Two-thirds of his service in the Colony; nor
(c) In any case eighty-four months.
3. Subject as aforesaid, every Judge of the Supreme Court who is transferred to or from the service of the Colony from or to other service under the Crown and is not entitled to a pension under clause 2 of these Regulations shall, if his aggregate service under the Crown in this Colony and elsewhere would have entitled him had it been wholly in this Colony to a pension under that clause, be entitled on his ultimate retirement to a pension at the rate of two seven-hundred-and-twentieths of the amount of his annual
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