1026 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 27т NOVEMBER, 1897.
Repeal of sect. 19 of Ord. No. 30 of 1890.
transfer, at the same rate and subject to the same terms as if he had continued in the service of the Government of this Colony and continued to receive the salary which he was receiving at the date of such transfer. In the event of his ceasing to contribute, or in the event of any contribution due from him not having been paid for six months, his widow or his widow and orphans, as the case may be, shall be entitled, after the death of such contributor, only to a pension computed on the basis of the interest acquired by such contributor, in the fund, at the date of bis being transferred or of his ceasing to contribute, in accordance with the tables hereinafter referred to. 4. Section 19 of Ordinance No. 30 of 1890 is hereby repealed.
Objects and Reasons.
Sections 3 and 4 of this Ordinance are drafted at the
suggestion of the Secretary of State. Section 3 is designed to give to an officer, transferred from the service of the Colony to other service under the Crown, an option of continuing to contribute to the Hongkong Widows' and Orphans' Pension Fund after he has left the Colony,
A similar privilege is allowed in British Guiana, Jamaica and Trinidad and is to be conceded also in Ceylon.
Section 4 is designed to allow the families of dismissed officers to retain a claim to some benefit from the Fund. At the same time, the opportunity has been taken of removing all doubt as to the effect of Ordinance No. 12 of 1896 upon section 4 of Ordinance No. 18 of 1891, for an Ordinance repealing a repealing or amending Ordinance does not revive the Ordinance so repealed or amended. W. MEIGH GOODMAN, Attorney General,
Short title.
Interpre- tation.
Tenant of
premises not cxceeding $240 rental, unlawfully holding over may be
summoned.
A BILL
ENTITLED
An Ordinance to facilitate the Recovery of Posses- sion of Tenements and Premises of Small Value.
WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for the more speedy and effectual recovery of the possession of tenements and premises of small value.
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as The Small Tenements Recovery Ordinance, 1897.
2. In this Ordinance unless the context otherwise requires,-
The word "premises" means lands (including Lease-
holds), houses, and corporeal hereditaments.
The word "house" includes a matshed or other structure. The word "owner" means the person entitled to the immediate reversion or, in cases within section 6, to the possession of the premises, or, if the property be held in joint tenancy, or tenancy in common, means any one of the persons entitled to such reversion, or possession. The word "agent" includes any person usually employed by the owner in the management of his property or in the letting of the premises or in the collection of the rents thereof, or specially authorized to act in the par- ticular matter by writing under the hand of such
owner.
3. When and so soon as the term or interest of the tenant of any house, land, or other premises, held by him at will or for any term not exceeding seven years, either without being liable to the payment of any rent or at a rent not exceeding the rate of twenty dollars a month, or two hundred and forty dollars a year, and upon which no fine shall have been reserved or made payable, shall have ended or shall have been duly determined by a legal notice to quit or otherwise, and such tenant or (if such tenant do not actually occupy the premises, or only occupy a part thereof) any person by whom the same or any part thereof shall be