POLICE PENSIONS ORDINANCE

POLICE PENSIONS ORDINANCE

Police Pensions.

No. 8 of 1869.

An Ordinance for amending the Law relating to the Granting of Pensions
and other Allowances to the Police Force.

[24th September, 1869.]

WHEREAS it is expedient to emend the law relating to Police pensions: 13e
it
enacted. by the Governor of Hongknng, with the advice of the Legislative
-Counoil thereof, as follows

1. Ordinance No. 9 of 1868, is hereby repealed.

Repeal of No. 9
of18B&

2: Sections 7 0 and 12 of Ordinance No. 9 of 1862; 'are hereby repealed
except as- io and 12 oJ a <~'
to any right acqu'i_red thereunder by any inspector, gergeant or
constable of the Policexss2

Force before the passing of-this Ordinance
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ORDINANCE No_ & 6F .1969.

Police Pensions.

3. Every inspector, sergeant: or constable of the Police Force shall at
the
termination of each service of five years £6.r which he may be engaged,
but subject to-
the proviso hereinafter contained, be entitled to a free passage froze!
Hongkong to the
port nearest to the place at which he may have been engaged for service
in the force,

or in lieu thereof, or in case he stall have been engaged in Hongkong, be
shall be
entitled to a sum by way o£ bonus equal to three months' pay of the rank:
to which at'
the time he may belong; Provided always that be shall acquire no right to
such isree
passage, or bonus unless he shall have given three months' previous
notice to the
'zE
Ce,ptain Superintendent of his intention to leave the force at the
expiration o£ such - ~'-°~
service of five years, or unless he shall engage for a farther period of
five years in whidlir`- .. -
case he shall be entitled to the said bonus although he may not have
given such notice:.

4. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from time to time to
regtxlate

the general conditions upon which, and the manner in which pensions,
superanuuation
allowances, or other relief, are to be granted to members of the Police
Force and to--::
determine in each particular case whether there shall or shall not be
granted to tiny,

`-';:v
member of the Police Force,'a pension, auperaunuation allowance, or other
relief, and''
in the event of the Governor in Council determining that thele shall be
granted to Any

`a=
member of the Police force, a pension, superannuation allowance, or other
relief: te '`
-feiither determine the atugurot-to -be paril_in iespeet thereof and the
terms on which l~ntt~' -`_
tb-e -natuet'iV which the same ahal>.>~s,~,Td: '

!3.- If .witty in .throe years, after the gra'ntinlof : a pension under
this Ordinance ~~ r

'-anv member of the Police 'Force it be prove(] to the satisfaction of
the Governor in',
Council that the person to whom each pension may have been granted had
been guilt y.~
of any corrupt practices in the, execution of his office either lay
receiving bribes or bv.
:inducing or bomhelling payment directly or indirectly of any valuable
consideration tbv
himself or to any other partyby way of a bribe or by otherwise acting
corruptly, in the
execution of -or under color of hia-oiprco as a member of the Police,
then in every such -
case it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to revoke and annul
the grant of
such pension, or to make such reduction therein as .to the said Governor
in Council may

appear fit.-

6: This Ordinance shall commence and take effect on each day as shall
hereaftorv
`lae'fxed by proclamation under the hand of the Governor.

[In force front 112th. 1VIarch, 1870, by Proclamation of the same date.

. Repealed. by Urdarzance .'10. 14 of 188f.]
'

I'ov,. RegO -ensions under section 4:

-Foi ationstas to Police .7
See Regulations 17i1z: :11arcle. 1874, ( Gazette 21st of the same
month,)-

and Regulations 13th September T8$4, (Gazette of the same date.
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Title.
Preamble.
Repeal of No. 9 of 1868.
Repeal of sections 10 and 12 of 9 of 1862.
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Free passage or bouns after five year's service Proviso as to notice.
Pensions.
Revocation of pension.
Commencement of Ordinance.

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Title.
Preamble.
Repeal of No. 9 of 1868.
Repeal of sections 10 and 12 of 9 of 1862.
1036
Free passage or bouns after five year's service Proviso as to notice.
Pensions.
Revocation of pension.
Commencement of Ordinance.

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