2017. Officers in Civil, Colonial, or Foreign Employment.-The conditions under which officers are allowed to draw non-effective pay whilst holding civil employment of profit under any public department, or any employment of profit under the Government of any British possession, or any employment under the Government of any foreign State, are set forth in Appendix XIV.

2. Forfeiture or Suspension.-The retired pay and pensions of commissioned, commissioned warrant, and warrant officers shall be held only during good behaviour, and the Admiralty may at their discretion direct that they shall be forfeited or suspended .for such time as the Admiralty may think fit, for any misconduct or act rendering officers unworthy to receive them. The Admiralty may at their discretion restore retired pay or pension in whole or in part, whether the same has been forfeited under the Forfeiture Act, 1870, or not.

The above regulation applies to all descriptions of pensions, except pensions for wounds, injuries, or disability.

2018. Placing on Half Pay.-When an officer becomes entitled to half pay, the necessary authority is issued without any application on his part, by the Admiralty, to His Majesty's Paymaster-General, by whom the payment is made.

2018. Form of Declaration.-Payment can only be made on the production of such declarations as may from time to time be prescribed, the forms for which can be obtained from the office of the Paymaster-General or from officers who make payments on his behalf.

2020. Modes of Payment.-The following are the various modes of payment which are adopted :

At Home.

1. At the Paymaster-General's office on personal application.
2. By negotiable receipts or drafts accompanied by the prescribed form of declaration.
3. By the Cashier of a dockyard, the Deputy Cashier at the Royal Victoria Yard, or the Superintending Store Officer at the other victualling yards.
4. By Collectors of Inland Revenue or Customs.

Abroad.

5. By local War Department officers, or the Colonial Treasury, or, where there are no such officers or Treasury, by negotiable receipts drawn as in sub-clause (b).

2. Payments are made quarterly, but monthly payments on account are made to such officers as desire them.

2021. Election of Mode of Payment.-Officers on becoming entitled to half or retired pay should acquaint the Paymaster-General, in writing, or by personal application at his office, as to the mode in which they desire to receive payment, and whether monthly or quarterly.

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2. Any officer desiring to change the mode of receiving his half or retired pay should, in like manner, signify his wish to the Paymaster-General.

2022. Balance of Half Pay on Appointment.- When an officer appointed to a ship from half pay is unable, from unavoidable causes, to receive the residue of his half pay before leaving England, he may communicate with the Accountant-General enclosing the usual declaration, if not previously sent to the Paymaster-General, stating the name and address of the person he wishes to receive the residue of his half pay; authority will then be given the Paymaster-General to pay the arrears to the officer's nominee.

2023. Death of Half Pay Officer.-In the case of death, the legal representatives should apply to the Accountant-General, by whom the necessary authority will be sent to the Paymaster-General for the payment to them of the arrears due to date of death. Should probate of will have been obtained or letters of administration taken out, they should be forwarded to the Accountant-General ; but if there should be no occasion for such administration, owing to the assets of the deceased not exceeding 1001., it should be so stated on the application.

2024. Retired Pay, Pensions, &c. how paid.-Retired pay, pensions to officers, and pensions to widows and relatives of deceased officers are paid in the same manner as half pay, by the Paymaster-General, on receipt of the necessary authority from the Admiralty, upon production of declarations, except that in the case of the death of a pensioner, the probate of will or the letters of administration should be forwarded to the Paymaster-General.

2025. Declarations, Attestation of.-Under the authority of Treasury warrants, dated the 18th October 1893, the 8th March and 31st October 1895, in pursuance of the provisions of the Annual Appropriation Act, the persons before whom half pay and pension declarations may be subscribed are given on the form which must be used when applying for half or retired pay. They are also given in the Quarterly Navy List.

NOTE.-For Appendices, Comparative Table, and Index see Volume II.

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