providing for the grant of pensions to the Widows
and Orphans of public officers.
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2. This draft Ordinance...
has been carefully considered
in connection with a similar
draft ordinance received from the Straits Settlements, and I have now to approve of its introduction subject to the following amendments.
3.
In clause 2 the definition
of
"Public Officer" should
read as follows:
**Public Officer shall mean a person permanently employed in the service of the
Government or a member
of the Police Force of the
Colony of higher rank but does not
include any person whose
salary is less than two hundred and forty dollars
per annum
4. In the same clause the definition of Salary should be that contained in Section 1
of Ordinance No. 28 of 1895;
and the definition of Pension
should be amended
by the addition of the words
"except where the context implies that the contributor himself is referred to"; and the definition
of
"the Fund"
should be amended by the insertion