Hong Kong Regulations

PENSIONS REGULATIONS - REGULATION 6

Marriage gratuity when payable

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 63 of 1999 s. 3

Where a female officer who-

   (a)  has been appointed to an established office before 17 November 1972;

   (b)  has been in the public service under the Government for not less than
        5 years;

   (c)  has been confirmed in an established office; and

   (d)  is not eligible for the grant of a pension or otherwise eligible for a
        gratuity under this Part, retires from the public service for the
        reason that she has married or is about to marry she may be granted,
        on production within 6 months after her retirement, or within such
        longer period as the Chief Executive may in any particular case allow,
        of satisfactory evidence of her marriage, a gratuity of an amount not
        exceeding- (63 of 1999 s. 3)

        (i)    the highest annual rate of pensionable emoluments with effect
               from 9 December 1949; or (36 of 1987 s.49)

        (ii)   four and one-sixth times the annual amount of the pension which
               might have been granted to her under regulation 4 had there
               been no qualifying period and had regulation 4 been applicable
               to her, whichever is the less. (L.N. 238 of 1972; 36 of 1987
               s.49)