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THE HONGKONG

Government Gazette.

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VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 30TH APRIL, 1870.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. Additional Pension Minute.

VOL. XVI.

Fader Instructions from Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, it is hereby that Pensions will hereafter be granted to Civil Servants of the Government of Hongkong in aity with the Provisions of the following Rules, which are published for general information.

By Command,

J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 25th April, 1870.

1. The Pension of every Public Officer, on his ultimate retirement from the Service of any Colony, any civil Le calenlated (if payable at all) upon the whole period of his continuous service in giments under the Imperial, or under any other Colonial Government.

2. The Government from whose Service he retires, will pay him the rate of Pension due to this 4 of service by the Law or practice of the Colony, subject to a deduction equal to the retiring n. which, on the principle of the Imperial Superannuation Act, (qualified by Section 6), would to him from the Government by which he was last previously employed, if he had retired from with at the period of his promotion.

». In the case of several promotions the same principle will be applied as between any two salve employers, the second of these employers paying the Officer a Pension calculated on the period of his continuous Public Service up to the date of his second transfer, but subject to a tion equal to a Pension calculated on service previous to his first transfer.

1. If in any of the employing Colonies no Retiring Pension is payable, or a rate of Pension less the Imperial rate, the Oficer must be a loser to that extent. Nor must he claim from any y from whose Service he has been promoted a rate higher than that authorized by the Imperial

umuation Act.

7. In some Colonies a certain number of years are added to an Officer's service, by way of bonus, ulating his Retiring Pension. An Officer promoted from such a Colony shall lose that bonus. leer retiring from the Service of such a Colony shall only be allowed it in case he shall have ted in that Service for the time necessary to qualify him for receiving it.

If an Officer does not remain ten years in the Colonial Service from which he retires, his shall, for the purpose of calculating his Retiring Pension, be taken on the average of the last The same rule will be applied in calculating the payment to be made to him in respect of termediate employment.

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It may happen that an Officer receiving a higher Salary, without a right to Pension, may be red to a Colony in which he will receive a lower Salary with a right to Pension. In this case Best Salary shall be takea not only for the purpose of calculating the Pension, but also for the

se of enliplating the deduction, as being of the same amount as the second,

Memorandung containing some supposed cases in illustration of these Rules, is annexed.