1036.
Free passage or bonus after five years' service. Proviso as to notice. Pensions. Revocation of pension. Commencement of Ordinance.
ORDINANCE No. 8 of 1869.
Police Pensions.
3. Every inspector, sergeant or constable of the Police Force 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 in the force, 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 Captain 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.
4. 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, superannuation allowances, or other relief, are to be granted to members of the Police Force and to determine in each particular case whether there shall or shall not be granted to any member of the Police Force, a pension, superannuation allowance, or other relief, and in the event of the Governor in Council determining that there shall be granted to any member of the Police Force, a pension, superannuation allowance, or other relief to further determine the amount to be paid in respect thereof and the terms on which and the manner in which the same shall be paid.
5. 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 inducing or compelling payment directly or indirectly of any valuable consideration to himself or to any other party by way of a bribe or by otherwise acting corruptly in the execution 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 annul the grant of such pension, or to make such reduction therein as to the said Governor in Council may appear fit.
6. This Ordinance shall commence and take effect on such day as shall hereafter be fixed by proclamation under the hand of the Governor.
[In force from 12th March, 1870, by Proclamation of the same date. Repealed by Ordinance No. 14 of 1887.]
NOTE.-For Regulations as to Police Pensions under section 4: See Regulations 17th March 1874, (Gazette 21st of the same month,) and Regulations 13th September 1884, (Gazette of the same date.)
1036.
Free passage or bouus after five
years' service. Proviso as to notice.
Pensiony,
Revocation of pension,
Commencement
of Ordinance.
ORDINANCE No. 8 or 1869.
Police Pensions,
3. Every inspector, sergeant or constable of the Police Force 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 in the force, 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 Captain 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.
4. 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, superannuation allowances, or other relief, are to be granted to members of the Police Force and to determine in each particular case whether there shall or shall not be granted to any member of the Police Force, a pension, superannuation allowance, or other relief, and in the event of the Governor in Council determining that there shall be granted to any member of the Police Force, a pension, superannuation allowance, or other relief to further determine the amount to be paid in respect thereof and the terms on which and the manner in which the same shall be paid.
5. 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 inducing or compelling payment directly or indirectly of any valuable consideration to himself or to any other party by way of a bribe or by otherwise acting corruptly in the execution 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 annul the grant of such pension, or to make such reduction therein as to the said Governor in Council may appear fit.
6. This Ordinance shall commence and taka
effect on such day as shall hereafter be fixed by proclamation under the hand of the Governor.
[In force from 12th March, 1870, by Proclamation of the same date.
Repealed by Ordinance No. 14 of 1887.]
NOTE.-For Regulations as to Police Pensions under section 4:
See Regulations 17th March 1874, (Gazette 21st of the same month,) and Regulations 13th September 1884, ( Gazette of the same date.)
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