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4. Any Member of the Force who may be invalided as aforesaid before the completion of ten years' service may be granted a Gratuity not exceeding one month's pay for each complete year's service.

5. Extra pay for acting appointments will in no case be taken into consideration in determining the amounts of Pension or Gratuity.

6. All Pensions granted shall be payable in Hongkong or London, or in the principal towns of British India.

7. Full Pensions or Gratuities will be granted only on the Candidate's conduct having been uniformly good.

8. Should the Candidate'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.

9. A Commuted Payment, calculated at five times the amount of the Annual Pension, may be granted in lieu of a Pension, if the applicant will 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.

10. 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 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.

11. 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 be withdrawn by His Excellency the Governor, in any of the following cases :- (a.) On the conviction of the Grantee for any indictable Offence. (b.) 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 employ- ment which shall be, in the opinion of His Excellency the Governor, disgraceful 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.

Council Chamber,

per $100.

Hongkong,

188

Clerk of Councils.

Pensions paid in London will be at the rate of 4/2 the dollar, and those paid in India at the rate of 227 Rupees