648850-1892-Hongkong-Pension-Minute — Page 4

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 2ND JANUARY, 1892.

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):—

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

10

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

but not less than fifteen years,

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

5

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A

(e) In 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.

5. (1) Where a public Officer has been permanently injured- (a) in the actual discharge of his duty and

(b) without his own default and

(c) 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,

A

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) The 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.

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(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 (1) and (2). .›

No. 14.

Additional allow- ance grantable in cases of retirement in consequence of injuries received.

on pensioner's

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

No. 15.

Crown elsewhere

1. Subject to the provisions of this Minute, every public Officer (other than a Where the Officer Judge of the Supreme Court) who, having been borne on the Fixed Establishment of has served the the Colony for a period of at least twelve calendar months, leaves the service of the than in the Colony. Colony for other service under the Crown or for service in one of the Protected Native States of the Malay Peninsula 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, or of such Native State, 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.