Hong Kong Regulations

PENSION BENEFITS (JUDICIAL OFFICERS) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 18

Deemed increase in service where retirement is on medical grounds

(1) Subject to subregulation (2), in the case of an officer who retires under
section 7(1)(h) and whose period of qualifying service under the Government
is-

   (a)  not less than 5 nor more than 22 1/2 years; or

   (b)  more than 22 1/2 years but whose pensionable service is less than 22
        1/2 years, his pensionable service shall be deemed to increase in the
        same manner as for the calculation of death gratuity as if he had died
        at the date of retirement.

(2) Subregulation (1) applies in the case of an officer who is re-appointed to
service irrespective of the length of qualifying service completed during each
re-appointment, but the deemed increase of pensionable service is limited as
provided in section 21(8) and (9). (Enacted 1988)