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[Subsidiary]

Computation of deferred pension for service within the Group.

General rules as to qualifying service and pensionable service.

Continuity of service.

Military service to count for pension benefits.

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Pension Benefits Regulations

[1987 Ed.

permitted by the law or regulations of the service in which he is last employed to retire on pension or gratuity shall be an amount not exceeding 7 times the annual amount of the pension which, if there had been no requirement for a period of qualifying service, would have been granted to him under regulation 8, 9 or 10, as the case may be.

12. A deferred pension granted to an officer in respect of service within the Group shall be computed in accordance with regulation 8, 9 or 10, as the case may be.

PART IV

GENERAL

13. (1) Subject to these regulations, qualifying service shall be the inclusive period between the date on which an officer begins to draw salary in respect of public service and the date of his leaving public service, without deduction of any period during which he has been absent on leave.

(2) Only service under the Government shall be taken into account as qualifying service in respect of an officer, other than an officer who is transferred to or from service under the Government from or to other public service.

(3) No period which is not qualifying service shall be taken into account as pensionable service.

(4) No period during which an officer was not in the public service shall be taken into account as qualifying service and pensionable service.

(5) Any period during which an officer, who is in the public service, is seconded to service which is not public service may, with the approval of the Governor, be counted as qualifying service and pensionable service.

14. (1) Except as otherwise provided in these regulations, only continuous service shall be taken into account as qualifying service or as pensionable service.

(2) Where an officer has more than one period of pensionable service, every such period shall be taken into account separately for the purposes of computing pension benefits.

15. Where an officer, including a serving officer, has served with Her Majesty's Forces in time of war and before so serving was employed in public service the following provisions shall apply.

(a) during the period of such service with Her Majesty's Forces, including any period after the termination of the war, (in this regulation referred to as military service), he shall be deemed for the purposes of the Ordinance and

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