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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 19TH MARCH, 1887.
Bonus and pensions of
same.
[Ibid. B. 7.]
Renewal of service in force for
further period. [No. 9 of 1862, 2. 11.]
Circumstances. in which officer may be allowed to resiru, or may be dismissed. [Ibid. s. 22.]
Terms on which any member of Jolice Force may resign. [Ibid. 8. 23.]
Free passage
or bonus
after five years' service. [No. 8 of 1869, €. 3.]*
Proviso as to nolice.
J'ensions.
Revoration of pension. [Ibid. s. 5.]
Regulations for Govern- ment and discipline.
Departmental orders,
under his first appointment shall be reckoned in the compu- tation of his service for the purposes of Free Passage Bonus and Pension as hereinafter provided for and in such case sections 16, 17 and 18 of this Ordinance shall apply to such constable.
13. In case any subordinate officer or constable, who shall have completed his period of five years service, shall be desirous of continuing in the Police Force, he shall be at liberty to engage and bind himself for a further term of five years on similar terms and conditions, and shall take the oath or make the declaration prescribed by section 8 of this Ordinance: Provided always that his re-enlistment is approved by the Captain Superintendent.
14. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Governor shall have power to grant permission to resign, to any subordinate officer or constable who may become unfit for further service from ill-health on the certificate of the Colonial Surgeon to that effect, or in any special case brought to his notice by the Captain Superintendent, the Governor shall have power, to grant to any such officer or constable permission to resign.
15. Any subordinate officer or constable shall be entitled to claim his discharge at any time upon his giving to the Captain Superintendent three months' notice of his wish to withdraw, and paying a sum equivalent to two months pay of the rank he may hold at the time of his giving notice of withdrawal for each unexpired year of his term of appoint-
ment,
16. Every subordinate officer constable shall at the termination of each service of five years for which he may be engaged, but subject to the proviso hereinafter contained, be entitled to a free passage from Hongkong to the Port nearest to the place at which he may have been engaged for service, or in lieu thereof, or in case he shall have been engaged in Hongkong, he shall be entitled to a sum by way of bonus equal to three months' pay of the rank to which at the time he may belong; provided always that he shall acquire no right to such free passage or bonus unless he shall have given three months' previous notice to the Cap- tain Superintendent of his intention to leave the Force at the expiration of such service of five years, or unless he shall engage for a further period of five years in which case he shall be entitled to the said bonus, although he may not have given such notice.
17. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from time to time to regulate the general conditions upon which, and the manner in which pensions are to be granted to members of the Police Force and to determine in each particular case whether a pension shall or shall not be granted to any member of the Police Force, and in the event of the Governor in Council determining that a pen- sion shall be granted to any member of the Police Force, to further determine the amount to be paid in respect thereof and the terms on which aud the manner in which the same shall be paid.
18. If within three years after the granting of a pension under this Ordinance to any member of the Police Force it be proved to the satisfaction of the Governor in Council that the person to whom such pension may have been granted had been guilty of any corrupt practices in the execution of his office either by receiving bribes or by in- ducing or compelling payment directly or indirectly of any valuable consideration to himself or to any other person by way of a bribe or by otherwise acting corruptly in the exe- cution of or under color of his office as a member of the Police, then in every such case it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to revoke and annull the grant of such pension (if any be subsisting) or to make such reduction therein as to the said Governor in Council may appear fit.
19. The Captain Superintendent shall from time to time, make such rules or regulations as he shall deem expedient for the general Government and discipline of the Police Force; but such rules or regulations shall have no force or effect until they have been approved by the Governor in Council and published in the Gazette.
20. It shall be the duty of the Captain Superintendent from time to time to make, as he shall think fit, without reference to the Governor, but subject to the Governor's disallowance or revisal, such other departmental orders for the carrying out of the daily routine of the Force, and for regulating the internal economy thereof.
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