Cap. 470 Art. 16Status of public officers detailed to work with the Council. Cap. 93. Cap. 58.

(1) When a public officer is detailed to work with the

Council under any provision of article 15, such officer shall, during such period that the order has effect in his regard, be under the administrative authority and control of the Council but he shall, for all other intents and purposes, still be and be considered and treated as a public officer.

(2) Without prejudice to the aforementioned generality, an other Government department according to the terms and conditions of service applicable to his appointment with Government applicable on the date when he was so detailed work; or

(ii) be employed in such manner that his remuneration and conditions of service are less favourable than those applicable to his appointment with Government and which he is enjoying on the aforementioned date or which would otherwise be applicable to that appointment, during such period, had that officer not been so detailed with the Council; and

(b) shall have the right to have his service with the Council considered as a service with Government for the purposes of his pension, gratuity, or benefit under the Pensions Ordinance and the Widows and Orphans

Pensions Act, and of any other right privilege to which he would have been detailed, and he shall be responsible for all that which he may be responsible for, had he not been detailed with the Council.

(3) When an application is made as provided in sub-article (2)(a)(i), it shall be given the same consideration as if the applicant was not detailed for service with the Council.

(4) The Council shall make such contributions to the Government as may from time to time be established as pension and gratuity which an officer who is detailed with the Council as aforementioned may earn during the period in which he is so detailed.