Hong Kong Regulations

PENSIONS REGULATIONS - REGULATION 4

Pensions to whom and at what rates to be granted

(1) Subject to the provisions of the Ordinance and of these regulations, every
officer holding an established office under the Government, who has been in
the service under the Government in a civil capacity for 10 years or more,
shall be granted on retirement a pension at the annual rate of one
six-hundredth of his pensionable emoluments for each complete month of his
pensionable service under the Government, and any incomplete month of
pensionable service shall be taken to be that fraction of a complete month
whereof the denominator is 30 and the numerator the number of days of
pensionable service in that incomplete month, irrespective of the actual
number of days in that month. (26 of 1982 s. 6; 4 of 1993 s. 36)

(2) Notwithstanding the limit in the service specified in paragraph

(1), a pension shall be granted in accordance with that paragraph to an
officer who is retired under section 6(1)(i) or (j) irrespective of the length
of his qualifying service. (36 of 1987 s. 49)