THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 24, 1932.
(2) If the widow of any such officer marries again her pension under the provisions of this section shall cease on the remarriage: Provided that the pension may in the discretion of the Governor in Council, be revived upon re-widowhood.
(3) The pension of an orphan under the provisions of this section shall cease in the case of a male at the age of eighteen years, and in the case of a female on marriage or at the age of twenty-one years.
(4) Any grant made under the provisions of this section shall be in addition to any grant made under the provisons of
section 16.
ance.
19. Subject to the provisions of section 7, the provisions Application of this Ordinance shall apply to all officers in the service of this of Ordin- Colony at or after the commencement of this Ordinance and to all those who having served in this Colony have before the commencement of this Ordinance been transferred to other public service and are still in other public service at the com- mencement of this Ordinance: Provided that nothing herein contained shall be deemed to diminish the rights acquired by any person under any enactment hereby repealed or rules or minutes made thereunder or the rights and obligations conferred or imposed by sections 3 and 3A of the Pensions Ordinance, 1862, on or in respect of any judge or other public officer in the service of this Colony at the commencement of this Ordinance. But this proviso shall not be so construed as to entitle any officer, who shall have exercised any option or made any election under any regulations made under this Ordinance, to treat his decision or election as revocable.
in Ordin-
20. Where in the Widows' and Orphans' Pension Ordin- Inter- ance, 1908, or in any Ordinance amending or substituted for of
pretation the same, the pension of any person who is the contributor pension" himself is referred to, then if such person receives, in respect ance No. 15 of some period of service for such pension, both a gratuity of 1908, and a pension the amount of such pension, for the purposes of pension of the said Ordinance, shall be deemed to be four-thirds of its the con- actual amount.
where the
tributor himself is referred to..
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21. Section 17A of the Police Force Ordinance, 1900, as Amend- amended by the Police Force Amendment Ordinance, 1929. Section 17A is amended by the substitution of the words "the provisions of of Ordin the Pensions Ordinance, 1932, and any regulations made of 1900. thereunder" for the words "the provisions of the pension Ordinance minutes issued under or for the purposes of the Pensions 1929. Ordinance, 1862".
22. The following enactments are repealed:-
(a) The Pensions Ordinance, 1862.
(b) The Pensions Amendment Ordinance, 1928.
No. 18 of
Repeal of Ordinance No. 2 of 1862, and Ordinance No. 2 of
(c) The Pension Minutes issued under or for the purposes 1928. of the Pensions Ordinance, 1862.
Provided that such repeal shall in no
way affect the pension of any person, who retired from the service of the Colony or other public service before the commencement of this Ordinance, under any enactment hereby repealed or rules or minutes made thereunder.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 23rd day of June, 1932.
R. A. C. NORTH, Deputy Clerk of Councils.
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