THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 17TH JANUARY, 1891.
Second Wife's Pension.
2. A.-PENSION TO WHICH A SECOND WIFE (OF SUCH MEMBER
AS ABOVE) BECOMES ENTITLED ON MARRIAGE.
(a) When the second wife at the time of marriage is of the same
age as, or older than, the first wife would have been, if then alive.
RULE: The pension is to commence at the amount as determined by article 9 hereof, and to remain stationary at that amount, unless and until such member's official income be increased or decreased.
(b) When the second wife at the time of marriage is younger than
the late wife would have been, if then alive.
RULE: Take the pension as determined by article 9 hereof, and multiply it by the quantity found in Table C corres- ponding to the respective ages of the husband and that of his late wife at the time of the husband's second marriage; multiply the last product by the quantity found in Table A corresponding to the respective ages of the husband and his second wife at the time of their marriage. The final product will give the commencing annual pension to which the second wife will be entitled on her husband's death, in respect of his official income at the time of their marriage ; and this pension is to remain stationary at that amount, unless and until such member's official income be increased or decreased.
EXAMPLE: Thus, if at the date of re-marriage the age such member's first wife would have beer is 35, his own age is 45, and that of the second ife is 30, then, if the pension, to which the first wife if alive would have been entitled to, as found by article 9 hereof, be $237·65,
$237-65 × 3777 × 2453 $220 18 second wife's commencing pension.
B.-INCREMENTS ON THE LAST-FOUND PENSIONS.
The second wives' pensions are to be augmented as often as their. husbands have an increase of official income. Such augmen- tations to be calculated according to the principles and in the manner described in article 9 B (6) hereof, always taking the ages of the husband and wife as they stand at the date of the increase of official income.
Third and subsequent Wives' Pensions.
3. The rules laid down in articles 9 and 10 will apply; muțatis mutandis, to the case of pensions to a third, or any subsequently taken wife of a member as above. It should be borne in mind that the pen- sion to the last wife, and the age she would have been at the date of the further marriage, are always to be taken as the basis for estimating the commencing pension to which the new wife is entitled.
Abatement of Widows' Pensions,
4. When the official income of a member (as above) becomes reduced, either by abatement of the ordinary emoluments or by the grant of a permanent superannuation allowance, the widow's pension must be diminished by just the amount it would have been increased had the official income been raised instead of lowered.
For instance, if such member's official income beco::o reduced by $250 per annum, the existing pension to which, by the foregoing Rules, the wife was entitled should be diminished by the amount of pension corresponding to a contribution of $10 per annum.
There would be no objection, in principle, to allowing such member to continue his old rate of contribution for the remainder of the 35 years, should he desire to do so, and so prevent a diminution of the pension; but, in that case, sufficient independent medical evidence should be produced that the state of his health is such that no financial
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