Hong Kong Regulations

PENSION BENEFITS REGULATIONS - REGULATION 18

Deemed increase in service where retirement is on medical grounds

(1) Subject to paragraph (2), in the case of an officer who retires from the
public service under section 11(1)(h) of the Ordinance 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 be-

        (i)    twice the actual period of his pensionable service, subject to
               a maximum of 22 1/2 years; or

        (ii)   the period of pensionable service that he would have completed
               if he had served until attaining the age of 60, whichever is
               the lesser.

(2) Paragraph (1) shall apply in the case of an officer who is re-appointed to
service under the Government irrespective of the length of qualifying service
completed during such re-appointment, but the deemed increase of pensionable
service under that paragraph shall be limited as provided in section 20(8) and
(9) of the Ordinance. (Enacted 1987)