HONG KONG.
No. 24 OF 1939.
I assent.
L.S.
G. A. S. NORTHCOTE,
Governor.
30th June, 1939.
An Ordinance to continue and amend the Sterling Salaries
Conversion Ordinance, 1937.
[30th June, 1939.]
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Sterling Salaries Short title. Conversion Amendment Ordinance, 1939.
No. 24 of
2. Notwithstanding anything contained in section 6 of Ordinance the Sterling Salaries Conversion Ordinance, 1937, hereinafter 1937 to be called the principal Ordinance, the said Ordinance shall be deemed to have continued in force until the commencement of this amending Ordinance.
deemed to
have con- tinued in force until
commence- ment of this Ordinance.
3. From the commencement of this amending Ordinance Continuance the principal Ordinance is to continue amended as follows:
of Ordin- ance No. 24 of 1937
(i) by the repeal of the proviso to section 3 thereof and hereafter by the substitution therefor of the following proviso:-
amended in sections
Provided that the salaries of officers, who were absent 3 and 6. from the Colony on leave on the first day of June, 1939, for a period exceeding three months, shall, if paid in the Colony, be paid at the Treasury rate until they return from such leave.
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(ii) by the repeal in section 6 thereof of the words " until the 31st December, 1938, and no longer ".
Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 29th day of June, 1939.
C. B. BURGESS, Deputy Clerk of Councils.
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