Hong Kong Regulations

PENSIONS REGULATIONS - REGULATION 22

Abolition of office and reorganization

If an officer holding an established office and who has been confirmed therein
retires from the public service in consequence of the abolition of his office
or for the purpose of facilitating improvements in the organization of the
department to which he belongs, by which greater efficiency or economy may be
effected-

   (a)  he may, if he has been in the public service for less than 10 years,
        be granted in lieu of any gratuity under regulation 5 or 12, a pension
        under regulation 4, 9, 10 or 11, as the case may be, as if the
words "for 10 years or more" were omitted from regulation 4;

   (b)  he may, if he retires from the service under the Government, be
        granted an additional pension at the annual rate of one-sixtieth of
        his pensionable emoluments for each complete period of 3 years'
        pensionable service: Provided that-

        (i)    the addition shall not exceed ten-sixtieths; and

        (ii)   the addition together with the remainder of the officer's
               pension shall not exceed the pension for which he would have
               been eligible if he had continued to hold the office held by
               him at the date of his retirement and retired on reaching the
               age at which he is normally required to retire under the
               provisions of section 8 of the Ordinance, having received all
               increments for which he would have been eligible by that date.
               (G.N.A. 165 of 1952)

(36 of 1987 s.49)