(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).