Application
of Ordin-
ance,
Inter- pretation of
"pension" in Ordin-
ance No. 15
of 1908, where the pension of
the con- tributor himself is referred to.
Amend- ment of
Section 17A of Ordin- ance No. 11 of 1900. Ordinance No. 18 of 1929.
Repeal of Ordinance No. 2 of 1862, and Ordinance No. 2 of 1928.
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(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.
19. Subject to the provisions of section 7, the provisions of this Ordinance shall apply to all officers in the service of this 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- inencement 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that nothing herein contained shall be deemed to diminish the rights acquired by any person under any enactment hereby repealed or rules or minutes made thereunder. 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.
20. Where in the Widows' and Orphans' Pension Ordin- ance, 1908, or in any Ordinance amending or substituted for the same, the pension of any person who is the contributor himself is referred to, then if such person receives, in respect of some period of service for such pension, both a gratuity and a pension the amount of such pension, for the purposes of the said Ordinance, shall be deemed to be four-thirds of its actual amount.
21. Section 17A of the Police Force Ordinance, 1900, as amended by the Police Force Amendment Ordinance, 1929, is amended by the substitution of the words "the provisions of the Pensions Ordinance, 1932, and any regulations made thereunder" for the words "the provisions of the pension minutes issued under or for the purposes of the Pensions Ordinance, 1862".
22. The following enactments are repealed:-
(a) The Pensions Ordinance, 1862.
(b) The Pensions Amendment Ordinance, 1928.
(c) The Pension Minutes issued under or for the purposes 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.