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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL RESOLUTION.
RESOLVED that where an officer who was in the service of this Colony and was detained in the Far Eastern area during the period of the Japanese invasion and who retired from the public service-
(2) on or after the first day of January, 1947, not having been in receipt of salary according to a scale of pay operative in this Colony in consequence of the Salaries Revision, 1947;
(6) prior to the first day of January, 1947,
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and has died or dies before the first day of August, 1952, it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, when death was directly attributable to, or the condition resulting in death aggravated by, the circumstances of such detention and without his own default, to grant a pension ex gratia to the widow and children of such officer, calculated in accordance with the provisions of section 18 of the Pensions Ordinance, 1932 (now repealed), or if such officer was a police officer in accordance with regulation 14 made under the Police Force Ordinance, 1932 (now repealed), as though such officer had died at the date of his retirement, but to be payable from the date of the death of such officer.
ResolveD FURTHER that any pension granted hereunder shall be subject to the same conditions as those to which it would have been subject had it been granted under the provisions of the section of the Ordinance or regulation in accordance with the provisions of which it was calculated.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
20th September, 1950.
Clerk of Councils.