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[ 14 of 1887. ) POLICE FORCE CONSOLIDATION.

9. Fuli pensions or gratuities will be granted only on the applicant's
conduct having been uniformly good.
10. Should the applicant's conduct not have been uniformly good, a
modified pension or gratuity will be granted. Should his conduct have been
decidedly bad , no pension or gratuity will be paid.
11. A commuted payment, calculated at five times the amount of the
annual pension, may be granted in lieu of a pension, if the applicant should
be unable to draw his pension at any of the places before mentioned,or on the
application of the grantee, at the discretion of His Excellency the Governor.
12. If any person receiving a pension under these regulations 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 be 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 .
13. A pension is granted only on the condition that it becomes forfeited,
and may be withdrawn by His Excellency the Governor, in any of the
following cases :
(a.) On the conviction of the grantee for any indictable offence.
(6.) On his knowingly associating with thieves or suspected persons.
( c.) On his refusing to give information and assistance to the Police
whenever in his power, for the detection and apprehension of
criminals, and for the suppression of any disturbance of the
public peace.
( d .) If he enter into or continue to carry on any business, occupation ,
or employment, which shall be, in the opinion of His Excellency
the Governor, disgraceful in itself or injurious to the public, or
in which he shall make use of the fact of his former employment
in the Police in a manner which His Excellency the Governor
considers to be discreditable and improper.
14. It shall , however, be in the discretion of the Governor in Council to
grant a special rate of pension to any subordinate officer or constable of the
Police force who may be compelled to quit the public service by reason of
severe bodily injury, occasioned without his own fault, in the discharge of
his public duty or whose retirement may be proved to have been accelerated
by such injuries.
In every such case the amount of pension shall be made to vary partly in
proportion to the number of years served by the injured man , and partly in
proportion to the severity of the injury and the date of its occurrence. The
portion of the pension earned by length of service shall be calculated at the
rate of 1,60th of the salary of the officer at the time when he retires, for each
year of service then completed by him , whether the number of years served
he more or less than 10, but no number of years service shall be allowed to
give a claim to pension of more than 40 /60ths in respect of service only ; and
in every such case a medical certificate shall be furnished stating :
(a.) Whether the capacity of the officer affected to contribute towards
his own support is slightly impaired,impaired, materially impaired,
or totally destroyed, and
(6.) Whether such incapacity is likely to be permanent.
( c .) Whether the retirement is to be attributed solely and immediately
to the injuries received .