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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENTGAZETTE,JUNE 24, 1932.
7. Registration of United Kingdom Patents Amendment Bill.-The Attorney General moved the Second reading of the Bill intituled "An Ordinance to amend the law relating to the Registration of United Kingdom Patents." The Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Bill read a second time.
Council in Committee on the Bill.
On Council resuming, the Attorney General reported that the Bill had passed through Committee without amendment and moved that it be read a third time.
The Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Bill read a third time and passed.
8. Pensions Bill.-The Attorney General moved the Second reading of the Bill intituled "An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the law regulating the granting of Pensions, Gratuities and other Allowances in respect of public service.'
Compulsory Retirement.
The Colonial Secretary seconded.
Hon. Mr. J. P. BRAGA and Hon. Mr. R.H. KOTEWALL, C.M.G. LL.D. addressed the
Council. The Attorney General replied.
Question-put and agreed to.
Bill read a second time.
Council in Committee on the Bill.
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Clause 2 (d) the words "High Commissioner for Transport in Kenya and Uganda", were deleted and the words Board of Education for England and Wales, or the Crown Agents for the Colonies, or the Colonial Audit. Department (Home Establishment), or the Kenya and Uganda Railways and Harbour Administration", were substituted therefore.
Clause 10 was deleted and the following new clause was substituted.
10.-(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to require any officer other than a judge, whenever appointed, to retire from the public service of this Colony who:--
(a) appears to the Governor to be unable to discharge efficiently.
the duties of his office; or
(b) being a woman who has entered the public service after the
commencement of this Ordinance is married.
(2) The normal age of retirement for any public officer, other than a judge, shall
be deemed to have been attained if he or she-
(a) has attained the age of fifty-five years, or
(b) being an Indian subordinate officer of the Prison Department, lady medical officer, lady serving in the Education Department, or a European attendent at a Government mental hospital, or a matron, nursing sister or nurse in a Government hospital, has attained the age of fifty years.
and any such officer, who shall have attained the normal age of retirement, shall retire from the public service of the Colony unless the Governor in Council decides that his or her services shall be retained. In no case, how- ever, except with the approval of the Secretary of State, shall the services of any such officer be retained for more than five years after he or she has. attained the normal age of retirement.
At the end of Clause 16 the following words were added:
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Such gratuity, if granted to the legal personal representative, shall form part of the estate of the officer for purposes of distribution under
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