Hong Kong Regulations

PENSION BENEFITS (JUDICIAL OFFICERS) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 13

General rules as to qualifying service and pensionable service

Caution: This is a past version. See the current version here.

PART IV

GENERAL

(1) Subject to these regulations, qualifying service shall be the inclusive
period between the date on which an officer begins to draw salary in respect
of public service and the date of his leaving public service, without
deduction of any period during which he has been absent on leave.

(2) Only service under the Government shall be taken into account as
qualifying service in respect of an officer, other than an officer who is
transferred to or from service under the Government from or to other public
service.

(3) No period which is not qualifying service shall be taken into account as
pensionable service.

(4) No period during which an officer was not in the public service shall be
taken into account either as qualifying service or as pensionable service.

(5) Any period during which an officer, who is in the public service, is
seconded to service which is not public service may, with the approval of the
Governor, be counted as qualifying service and pensionable service. (Enacted
1988)