WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION (AMENDMENT) Ord. No. 20/74
L.S.
HONG KONG
No. 20 of 1974
I assent.
MURRAY MACLEHOSE,
Governor.
28th March, 1974.
An Ordinance to amend the Workmen's Compensation Ordinance.
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Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice
and consent of the Legislative Council thereof.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Workmen's Com- Short title pensation (Amendment) Ordinance 1974 and shall come into and com- operation on a day to be appointed by the Governor by notice in the Gazette.
mencement.
2. Section 2 of the principal Ordinance is amended in Amendment paragraph (a) of the proviso the subsection (1) by deleting "one of section 2. thousand five hundred" and substituting the following-
3.
"two thousand”.
Section 6 of the principal Ordinance is amended-
(a) in paragraph (a)(ii) by deleting "or" in the last place
where it occurs;
(b) in paragraph (a)(iii) by inserting after "1970" the
following-
"and before the 1st day of July 1974"; and
(c) by inserting after paragraph (a)(iii) the following new
sub-paragraph-
"(iv) where the accident happens on or after the 1st day of July 1974, be a sum equal to thirty- six months' earnings or sixty thousand dollars, whichever is less:
Provided that in no case shall the sum payable under this sub-paragraph be less than nine thousand six hundred dollars;".
(Cap. 282.)
Amendment of section 6.