THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 11TH OCTOBER, 1890.
A BILL
ENTITLED
An Ordinance to provide for and regulate a Pension Fund for widows and children of Public Officers of the Colony.
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E 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 as The Widows' and Orphans' Pensions Ordinance, 18
2. For the purposes of this Ordinance, the following ex- pressions shall have and include the meanings respectively set against them, wherever the same are not repugnant to the context.
Contributor-Any public officer as hereinafter defined
whose salary is liable to abatement under this Ordinance or who may be admitted by the directors of the fund to contribute to it.
Directors.-The directors of the fund, to be appointed
under this Ordinance.
Orphan.-Any child born in wedlock of any deceased
contributor.
Tension.-Any pension granted under this Ordinance,
except where the context shall imply that the peusion of the contributer himself is referred to.
Pensioner. Any person entitled to a pension under
this Ordinance.
Public Officer. Any officer of the Colonial Civil Service in the Colony who is in receipt of a yearly salary or pension of not less than two hundred and forty dollars, and who is restricted by law to one wife at any one time, and whose engage- ment of service is not terminable at any fixed or definite period.
Salary.-The total emoluments of whatever nature of any contributor payable out of the Colonial Treasury.
The Fund.—All moneys raised under this Ordinance, whether by contributions, fines, interest, loan, or otherwise.
Widow. The widow of any contributor.
The Fund.
3. The Fund shall be called The Widows' and Orphans' Fund, and shall be raised as hereinafter directed.
4. An abateinent at the rate of four per cent shall be made by the Colonial Treasurer or the Crown Agents as the ease may be on each payment of the salary or pension of every public officer who shall enter the Civil Service of the Colony after the date fixed for the coming into force of this Ordinance, or whose yearly sa ary, having previously been less than two hundred and forty dollars shall, after such date, be increased to two hundred and forty dollars or more. All other payments and contributions to the fund shall be made to the Colonial Treasurer and placed to the credit of the fund.
5. The directors may admit any public officer who shall have been appointed before the coming into force of this Ordinance to contribute towards the fund, provided that such public officer shall pay forthwith, or by such instal- ments as the directors shall determine, a sum equal to all the abatements which would have been made from his salary and all the compound interest which would have accrued on such abatements if he had commenced to con- tribute to such fund on the date when this Ordinance first came into force. And every public officer so admitted to contribute to the fund shall be entitled to the same privileges and shall be subject to the same conditions in respect of the fund as are all other contributors.
Short title.
Interpreta- tion.
Ceylon Ord,
No. of 188
Fmid,
3.
Abatein: nt of salaries. Thid, 5 & 14.
Voluntary contributor. Ibid, 6,
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