Pensions (Special Provisions) (Customs Officers) Ordinance

Any eligible officer may, by notice in writing to the Director of Accounting
            Services within 3 months after the date of
            commencement*
            of this Ordinance or such greater period as the Director of Accounting Services may
            allow, avail himself of the provisions of this Ordinance and, upon so
doing—
(a)
any contribution paid by him under the Widows and Orphans Pension Ordinance
                    (
Cap. 94
) or the
                Surviving
                Spouses’ and Children’s Pensions Ordinance (
Cap. 79
) in respect of any service by him in the rank of Preventive
                Officer or Customs Officer on or after 1 July 1977 shall be refunded to him and any
                such contribution shall be deemed for the purposes of those Ordinances never to have
                been paid;
(b)
his widow or children, as the case may be, shall, for the purposes of the Widows
                and Orphans Pension Ordinance (
Cap. 94
), be entitled on
                his death only to a pension computed on the basis of the potential benefit acquired
                by such
officer—
(i)
on 30 June 1977, if that officer was transferred from the rank of Revenue
                    Officer to the rank of Preventive Officer on 1 July 1977;
(ii)
immediately prior to his transfer to the rank of Preventive Officer or
                    Customs Officer if the officer was transferred to that rank on or after 1 July
                    1977 and before 1 January 1978;
(c)
any election made by the officer while holding the rank of Customs Officer to
                contribute under the
                Surviving
                Spouses’ and Children’s Pensions Ordinance (
Cap. 79
) with effect from 1 January 1978, shall, with respect to the
                period for which he held that rank, be deemed never to have been made and his
                service in that rank shall not be contributory service within the meaning of that Ordinance.
(Amended
21 of 2020 s. 51
)
Editorial Note:
*
Commencement date: 15 March
                1985.