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534 ORDINANCE No. 10 OF 1862 .


Civil Pensions.


permanent appointment. In the case of public officers appointed from home (except
cadets) their services will be reckoned from the date of the Secretary of State's Despatch
notifying the appointment to the Governor.


12. Cadets appointed in pursuance of the regulations published in the Government
Gazette of 12th October, 1861 , will date the commencement of their claims to pension
from the period at which the board of examiners may declare them qualified for Govern
ment interpreters.


13. The services in respect of which superannuation allowances are granted, ought
in all cases to have been continuous ; unless interrupted by reduction of office or other
temporary suspension of employment, not arising from misconduct, or voluntary
resignation of the party.


14. The pension shall be computed upon the salary of the permanent office held
by a public servant at the time of his retirement, provided he shall have held the same
office for at least three years, and that the salary of the same shall not have been revised
during that time ; otherwise the pension shall be calculated upon the average annual
amount of salary received by such person for three years next preceding the commence
ment of such pension .


15. In case of reduction or abolition of office, temporary allowances may be
assigned agreeably to the specified rates ; on condition however that the parties
receiving the same will be liable to be re-called into the service, and with the under
standing that they are to be re-employed as opportunity may occur in preference to
new applicants for office.


16. The period of service upon which the superannuation allowance of all officers
appointed to the public service, taking leave of absence in the regular manner with
abatement of salary will be calculated, will be at the rate of one month for every two
months of such leave.


17. If any person receiving a pension under this minute should be appointed to
fill any office in any public department, such pension shall cease to be paid for any
period subsequent to such appointment, if the annual amount of the profits of the
office to which he shall be appointed shall be equal to those of the office formerly held
by him, and in case it shall not be equal to those of his former office then no more of
such pension shall be paid to him than what with the salary of his new appointment
shall be equal to the profits of his former office.


18. Should the time of service not warrant the assignment of an annual allowance,
a gratuity may be granted after the rate of one month's salary for each year of service.