Repeal and replacement at rub. section
(1), (2).
(3) and (4) of section 16
of the principal Ordinance.
3. Sub-sections (1), (2), (3) and (4) of Section 16 of the principal Ordinance are hereby repealed and replaced as follows:--
16. (1) Every officer and every volunteer, irrespective of nationality, who when called out, in training or under instruction sustains wounds or înjuries or contracts an illness, which in the opinion of a board constituted for the purpose of this section, is attributable to or aggravated by such service, shall be entitled to apply for the appropriate disability pension. Such pension shall be paid in accordance with the provisions of the Force Pay Code at rates applicable to his rank and appropriate to his unit.
(2) The wife (as defined in the Force Pay Code) of an officer or volunteer, us declared on the date of enlistment of as subsequently notified to the Commandant, who loses his life whilst called out, in training or under instruction or whose death is, in the opinion of a board constituted for the purpose of this section, attributable to illness caused or aggravated by such service sball, irrespective of the deceased's nationality, be entitled-
(a) to a widow's pension payable in accordancs with the provisions of the'Fored Pay Code at rates applicable to the deceased's rank and appropriate to his unit; and
(b) additional allowance for children (as defined in the Force Pay Code) payable in ancordance with the provisions of such Code at rates applicable to the deceased's rank and appro- priate to his unit.
(3) (0) The parent, a motherless or fatherless child and other dependant of an officer or volun- teer, as declared on the date of enlistment or as subsequently notified to the Command- ant, who loses his life whilst called out, in training or under instruction or whose death is, in the opinion of a board constituted for the purpose of this section, attributable to illness caused or aggravated by auch service shall, irrespective of the deceased's nation- ality, be entitled to claim the appropriate peusion in respect of the deceased. Such pension shall be paid in accordance with the provisions of the Force Pay Code at rates applicable to the deceased's rank and appro- priate to his unit.
(b) The terms
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parent", ** child and other
dependant shall have the respective mean- inge assigned to them in the Force Pay Code.
(4) An unmarried dependant declared on the date
of enlistment or as subsequently notified to the Commandant as living as a wife of an officer or volunteer who loses his life whilst called out, in training or under instruction or whose death is, in the opinion of a board constituted for the purpose of this section, attributable to illness caused or aggravated by such service shall,
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irrespective of the deceased's nationality, be entitled to claim a ponsion in respect of the deceased. Such a pension shall be paid in accordance with the provisions of the Force Pay Code at rates applicable to the deceased's rank and appropriate to his unit.'
Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 16th day of March, 1949.
2.4. Hand.
Deputy Clerk of Councils,