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A BILL
INTITULED
[No. 39-13.9.34.-1.]
An Ordinance to amend the Railways Ordinance, 1909.
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Railways (No. 2) Short title. Amendment Ordinance, 1934.
of Ordinance
2. Sub-section (6) of section 35 of the Railways Ordin- Amendment ance, 1909, as enacted by the Railways Amendment Ordinance, of a 1927, is repealed and the following sub-section is substituted 1909, s. 35. therefor:
(6) This section shall not apply to any person who is in receipt of a yearly salary of two hundred pounds or two thousand dollars or upwards.
Ordinance No. 28 of 1927.
Objects and Reasons.
1. Section 35 of the principal Ordinance, as amended by the amending Ordinance of 1927, gives the Manager of the Railway a limited power to dismiss, suspend and punish for misconduct railway servants in receipt of salaries of less than £100 or $1000 per year who are not on the permanent establishment or serving under written agreements; and also empowers him to fine for breach of a rule made under section 32 any railway servant whose salary does reach either of these figures.
2. It has been found desirable to increase this salary limit, and the main purpose of the proposed amendment is to enable the Manager of the Railway, with a view to ensuring stricter discipline, to exercise the power to fine against any employee who receives not more than £200 or $2000 per annum as salary.
September, 1934.
R. E. LINDSELL,
Attorney General.