Hong Kong Regulations

PENSIONS REGULATIONS - REGULATION 13

Marriage gratuities

(1) Subject to paragraph (2), where a female officer to whom this Part applies
retires or is required to retire from the public service for the reason that
she is about to marry or has married, and-

   (a)  would have been eligible for a gratuity under regulation 6
        disregarding sub-paragraph (a) thereof if her public service had been
        wholly under the Government; and (L.N. 388 of 1983)

   (b)  is not eligible for the grant of any pension or otherwise eligible for
        a gratuity under this Part, she may be granted in respect of her
        public service under the Government a gratuity of an amount not
        exceeding four and one-sixth times the annual amount of the pension
        for which she would have been eligible under regulation 9, 10 or 11
        had there been no qualifying period and had regulation 9, 10 or 11, as
        the case may be, been applicable to her: Provided that, for the
        purpose of computing the amount of such a gratuity-

   (a)  in relation to a pension under regulation 9 or 11, regulation 9(2)(c)
        shall have effect as if the reference therein to two-thirds of her
        highest pensionable emoluments were a reference to six twenty-fifths
        of her annual pensionable emoluments; and

   (b)  in relation to a pension under regulation 9, 10 or 11, the annual
        amount of that pension shall not exceed six twenty-fifths of her
        annual pensionable emoluments.

(2) In the case of a female officer transferring to the service under the
Government from other public service and retiring whilst in the service under
the Government, paragraph (1) only applies if the last such transfer preceding
the retirement occurred before 17 November 1972. (L.N. 238 of 1972) (L.N. 15
of 1967; L.N. 238 of 1972; 36 of 1987 s. 49)