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An Act to confer power to make provision for the making of payments to, and to permit early retirement by, certain Hong Kong overseas public servants; to authorise the provision of resettlement services to certain Hong Kong overseas public servants who retire early; and to confer power to make provision for the making in certain circumstances of payments to supplement pensions and gratuities paid to or in respect of retired overseas public servants in respect of service in Hong Kong.
[29th February 1996]
Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
Commencement Information
I1Act wholly in force at Royal Assent.
For the purposes of this Act a person is a Hong Kong overseas public servant at any time if at that time—
(a)he is, or is treated by the Secretary of State as being, a member of Her Majesty’s Overseas Civil Service or Her Majesty’s Overseas Judiciary, and
(b)he is on the pensionable establishment of the government of the colony of Hong Kong.
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Textual Amendments
F1S. 2 repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), Sch. 1 Pt. 11
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Textual Amendments
F2S. 3 repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), Sch. 1 Pt. 11
(1)Her Majesty may by Order in Council make provision for the making by the Secretary of State, in specified circumstances, of payments to supplement pensions and gratuities paid under any specified provision of the law of Hong Kong to or in respect of persons who—
(a)have at any time been Hong Kong overseas public servants, or
(b)have been on the pensionable establishment of the government of the colony of Hong Kong either as members of any of the relevant colonial Services or in specified circumstances.
(2)In subsection (1)(b) “the relevant colonial Services” means the Services listed in the Schedule to the Special Regulations constituting Her Majesty’s Overseas Civil Service which were appended to Colonial No. 306 (1954).
(1)An Order in Council under this Act may make provision for the amount of payments under the Order in Council to be determined in any specified manner.
(2)The manner of determining the amount of payments under such an Order in Council need not be similar to the manner of determining the amount of other overseas public service payments.
(3)The circumstances specified in an Order in Council under section 4 for the making of payments need not be similar to those for the making of other overseas public service payments.
(4)The references in subsections (2) and (3) to other overseas public service payments are to payments to public servants in connection with the ending of Her Majesty’s sovereignty or jurisdiction over any colony or other territory apart from Hong Kong.
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Textual Amendments
F3S. 5(5) repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), Sch. 1 Pt. 11
(1)An Order in Council under this Act—
(a)may make different provision in relation to different cases,
(b)may except specified cases from any of its provisions, and
(c)may contain provisions which are incidental or supplementary.
F4(2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(3)In this Act “specified”, in relation to an Order in Council, means specified in the Order in Council.
(4)A statutory instrument containing an Order in Council under this Act shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.
Textual Amendments
F4S. 6(2) repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), Sch. 1 Pt. 11
Any expenditure incurred by the Secretary of State under or by virtue of this Act shall be met out of money provided by Parliament.
This Act may be cited as the Hong Kong (Overseas Public Servants) Act 1996.
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