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17 blank 5 This Clause appears to have been based on the same principle as Clause 4 of the Ceylon Pension Minute of 1861, with which, except in the last four lines, it closely agrees.
28. Moreover, Clause 4 of the Ceylon Pension Minute of 1861 appears to have been reproduced, almost verbatim, in Clause 17 of the Straits Pensions Ordinance.
29. The Imperial Pensions Act of 1865 had been passed about 6 years when the Straits Pensions Ordinance was passed. Perhaps there have been good grounds for retaining the Clause in the Straits Pensions Ordinance; but it seems to me a question for consideration whether, after the lapse of so many years after the passing of the Imperial Pensions Act, the Clause in the Straits Ordinance should be retained unaltered, if at all.
30. Clause ... retained blank 6 line 2. After pension, add "or other allowance".
31. If it were thought fit to insert a general clause as to Compulsory retirement (See remarks under Clause 1), it might perhaps be introduced after this Clause. The following words, copied from the proposed Mauritius Pensions Ordinance, "The Governor, subject to the approval of the Secretary of State, shall have power at any time after a person shall have attained the age of 60 years to require such person to retire from the Civil Service", might be used.
Clause 7 after "Illusion" add "compensation or other retiring allowance".
33. I find that in the last ... I have had only about 30 Hongkong pension cases referred to me; and I think it likely, from the smallness of the number, that the Kay ... as ... an other pounds, Dec.
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