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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 2, 1939.

Schedule,--contd.

SHORT TITLE.

AMENDMENT OR REPEAL.

21. The Widows' and

Orphans' Pension Ordinance. 1908. (No. 15 of 1908). --contd.

(a) 'Child' means the child of an officer by his wife, born after marriage;"

(ii) by the renumbering of the former paragraph (a) as paragraph (b);

by his

(iii) by the repeal of the words wife, born after marriage at the end of paragraph (c);

(iv) by the repeal of paragraphs (g) and (h) and the substitution therefor of the following new paragraph (g)~~

(g) 'Wife' means the lawful wife of any officer married to him by a Christian marriage or its civil equivalent, or in the case of Chinese the kit fat or tin fong, or in the case of any other Asiatic nation, the principal wife; and 'widow' shall be con- strued accordingly."

(2) Section 3, as amended by Ordinances Nos. 9 of 1929 and 2 of 1931, is further amended-

(i) by the insertion of the figure "(1)" in the first line immediately after the figure "3.";

(ii) by the deletion of the figure "(1)" at the beginning of the second line;

(ii) in sub-section (1)-

(a) by the repeal of the words and figures "on or after the first day of January, 1930," in paragraph (a); (b) by the insertion of the word "and" at the end of paragraph (b), the repeal of the word "and" at the end of paragraph (c) and the repeal of paragraph (d);

(iv) in sub-section (3), by the substitu- tion of the word has for the words

"

CA

shall have in the third line;

(v) by the repeal of sub-section (4)

(3) Section 3A, as enacted by Ordinance No. 9 of 1929 and amended by Ordinance No. 2 of 1931--

(i) sub-section (3) is amended by the in- sertion at the end of the following words-- or such extended period as the Governor in Council may in any particular case allow ";

(ii) the following three sub-sections are substituted for sub-sections (4), (5) and (6)—

(4) An officer who under this section. has obtained exemption from becoming a contributor under this Ordinance may not subsequently become a contributor under this Ordinance unless-

(a) he ceases to contribute to the ap-

proved scheme, or