Hong Kong Regulations

PENSION BENEFITS REGULATIONS - REGULATION 18A

Deemed increase in service where retirement is necessitated by duty-related injury

(1) Subject to paragraph (2), where-

   (a)  an officer retires from the public service on the ground that he is
        incapable by reason of infirmity of mind or body of discharging the
        duty of his office; and

   (b)  his retirement is necessitated or materially accelerated by permanent
        injury sustained in the circumstances described in section 14(1) of
        the Ordinance, his pensionable service shall be deemed to be twice the
        actual period of his pensionable service, subject to a minimum of 2
        years and a maximum of-

        (i)    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 reappointed to
service under the Government irrespective of the length of qualifying service
completed during such reappointment, but the deemed increase of pensionable
service under that paragraph shall be limited as provided in section 20(8) and
(9) of the Ordinance.

(3 of 1993 s. 52)