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2118 ORDINANCE No. 14 OF 1887 .


Police Force Consolidation.


Terms on
which any 15. Any subordinate officer or constable shall be entitled to claim
member of his discharge at any time upon his giving to the Captain Superintendent
Police Force
may resign. three months ' notice of his wish to withdraw, and paying a sum equiva
[ Ibid, s. 23. ]
lent to two months pay of the rank he may hold at the time of his giving
notice of withdrawal for each unexpired year of his term of appointment.

[ Proviso added by Ordinance No. 20 of 1890. ]

Free passage 16. Every subordinate officer or constable shall at the termination
or bonus after
five years' of each service of five years for which he may be engaged, but subject to
service.
[No. 8 of 1869, the proviso hereinafter contained, be entitled to a free passage from
3. ]
Hongkong to the port nearest to the place at which he may have been
Proviso as to engaged for service , or in lieu thereof, or in case he shall have been
notice.
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.

Pensious. 17. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from time to time
[ Ibid, s. 4.]
to regulate the general conditions upon which, and the manner in which
pensions are to be granted to members of the Police Force and to deter

mine in each particular case whether a pension shall or shall not be
granted to any member of the Police Force, and in the event of the Gov
ernor in Council determining that a pension shall be granted to any member
of the Police Force , 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.

Revocation 18. If within three years after the granting of a pension under this
of pension .
[Ibid, s. 5. ] Ordinance to any member of the Police Force it be proved to the satis
faction 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 com
pelling payment directly or indirectly of any valuable consideration to

himself or to any other person 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