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احمد
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sanctity of marriage.
The Nigerian Ordinance
provides (Section 2 (2)) that any divorced wife
is to be treated as if she were dead. This
is comma to other Cols &
practice has been recommended to Jamaica, (See
35818/27), and, seems reasonable. Moreover,
the Hong Kong provision only recognises divorces
by a British Court. This seems to be an un-
necessary restriction. We might recommend them
to adopt the Nigerian provision.
(8) Rules for calculating Pension. Α
small amendment is made so that an officer who
enters the service as a widower, without
pensionable children, is treated as if he were
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a bachelor. This seems reasonable, follows the
existing (illegal) practice, and corresponds
A don't
with the provision of the Nigerian rules. think the change can affect the actuarial basis as it slightly) Refund of Contributions. A new
after the
section is to be added to the Principal Ordin-
ance dealing with this, (Section 17).
Sub-section (1) deals with contributions
made in error and seems all right.
Sub-section (2) deals with officers
excluded by the Governor in Council under
of the mineshal Ovall
Section 3 (2) that is, officers engaged on
work of a special or temporary nature, or
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contributing elsewhere. Its effect is to
make the section 3 (2) retrospective.
far as the officers on temporary work are
concerned, a similar provision is already
in operation . Contributions could therefore
only have been made in error and such cases
will be dealt with by sub-section (1) As
to the officers contributing elsewhere, it
is not clear that any such cases have yet
arisen, (if not the provision is unnecessary),
and, any way, the proposed amendment to
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