645094-1894-Pension-Minute — Page 4

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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 7TH JULY, 1894.

service, and with the understanding that he will be re-employed as opportunity offers in preference to new applicants for office.

2. If the Officer whose office is abolished is not qualified for other employment, or if there is no reason in the opinion of the Governor to expect that he can be shortly re- employed, a pension may be granted to him free from the condition as to re-employment mentioned in this clause.

3. In the case of an Officer whose office is abolished his pension shall be at the rate of the number of sixtieths of his salary exceeding the number of the completed years of his service by the numbers following (that is to say):-

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(a) In the case of an Officer who has served twenty years, (b) In the case of an Officer who has served less than twenty years

but not less than fifteen years,

10

7

(c) In the case of an Officer who has served less than fifteen years

but not less than ten years,.

5

(d) In the case of an Officer who has served less than ten years

but not less than five years,...

3

Additional allow. auce grantable in cases of retirement in consequence of injuries received.

Pension to abate on pensioner's

obtaining other

(e) In the case of an Officer who has served less than five years,... 1

4. No addition shall be made under this clause to an Officer's period of service so as to entitle him to a higher pension than he would have been entitled to had he been retained in the service until he attained the age of sixty years.

No. 13.

1. Where a public Officer has been permanently injured—

(a) in the actual discharge of his duty and

(b) without his own default and

(e) by some injury specifically attributable to the nature of his duty

and his retirement is thereby necessitated or materially accelerated an annual allowance may be granted to him in addition to any pension which he may be awarded not exceeding the undermentioned portion of his salary and emoluments at the date of the injury, viz.:-

When his capacity to contribute to his support is-

Slightly impaired,

Impaired,

Materially impaired,

Totally destroyed,

..Five-sixtieths.

.Ten-sixtieths. ...Fifteen-sixtieths.

.Twenty-sixtieths.

Provided that no such allowance shall together with the pension exceed fifty- sixtieths of his salary and emoluments at the date of the injury.

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 shall 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.

No. 14.

If any pensioner under this Minute is appointed to an office under the Crown either in the Colony or elsewhere, then, during his tenure of such office, so much only, (if any) public employment. of his pension or compensation allowance shall be paid to him as with the emoluments 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.

Where the Officer has served the

Crown elsewhere

No. 15.

1. Subject to the provisions of this Minute, every public Officer (other than a Judge of the Supreme Court) who, having been borne on the Fixed Establishment of the Colony than in the Colony. for a period of at least twelve calendar months, leaves the service of the Colony for other 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