THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 8, 1939.
No. 1148.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S Department,
The following is published for general information.
N. L. SMITH,
Colonial Secretary.
8th December, 1939.
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.
Section.
1. Transfer of powers and duties as respects naval,
military and air force pensions.
2.
Amendment as to care of children.
3. Awards to mariners in respect of war injuries and
detention.
4.
Awards to pilots, etc.
5. Awards to certain persons serving on naval ships.
6. Compensation for war damage to effects.
7. General provisions as to schemes.
8. Penalty for false statements.
9. Exercise of powers of Board of Trade.
10.
Interpretation.
11. Short title and extent.
Pensions (Navy, Army, Air Force and Mercantile Marine) Act, 1939.
2 & 3 GEO. 6. CH. 83.
CHAPTER 83.
An Act to make provision for the transfer to the Minister of Pensions of powers and duties with respect to pensions. and grants vested in certain Naval, Military and Air Force authorities, to amend section nine of the War Pensions (Administrative Provisions) Act, 1918, to make provision for awards in respect of war injuries to, and the detention of, mariners and other seafaring persons and war damage to their effects, and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.
[3rd September, 1939.]
BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:---
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