No. 30 of 1890.
An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hong-kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, to provide for and regulate a Pension Fund for widows and children of Public Officers of the Colony.
F. FLEMING,
Officer Administering the Government.
[22nd December, 1890.]
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 as The Widows' and Orphans' Pensions Ordinance, 1890.
2. For the purposes of this Ordinance, the following expressions 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 to any deceased contributor by his wife after marriage.
Pension.-Any pension granted under this Ordinance, except where the context shall imply that the pension of the contributor 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 of not less than two hundred and forty dollars or of a pension calculated thereon and whose engagement 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.
Wife.-The lawful wife of any public officer of the Christian or Jewish religion or in the case of Chinese the Kit Fat or in the case of any other Asiatic nation the first wife.
Widow.-The widow of any contributor.
3. The Fund shall be called The Widows' and Orphans' Fund, and shall be raised as hereinafter directed.
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