Repeal and replace.
3.
ment of
Bection 4.
Amendment
Section 4 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and replaced by the following section-
"Applica-
tion to
workman
emoloyed
under the Crown.
4.
4.
This Ordinance shall apply to workmen em- ployed by or under the Crown in the same way and to the same extent as if the employer were a private person, except in the case of-
B
(a) members of the Armed Forces of the Crown;
and
(b) persons in the civil employment of Her Majesty, otherwise than in Her Government of the Colony, who have been engaged in a place outside the Colony; and
(c) members of the Royal Hong Kong Defence Force, the Essential Services Corps, the Police Force, the Special Constabulary, the Hong Kong Police Reserve, and the Royal Naval Yard Police:
Provided that this Ordinance shall not apply in the case of a workman in, or selected for appointment to, the service of the Government of the Colony before the date upon which this Ordinance comes into opera- tion, where, in consequence of injury received by any such workman in the discharge of his duties, a pension or gratuity which would not be payable if such injury were received otherwise. is paid to him or, in the case of his death, to any of his dependants as defined in this Ordinance, under any Ordinance or regulation providing for the grant of such pension or gratuity."
Section g of the principal Ordinance is amended by the of section 9. deletion of the word "two" in the second line of paragraph (a) of the proviso to subsection (1) and the substitution therefor of the following-
"(a) Any other compensation payable under this Ordinance shall be paid to the Court, and any sum so paid shall-
(a) be paid by the Court to the person entitled
thereto; or,
(b) if the compensation is payable under the provisions of section 7 or 8 or is a lump sum payable under the provisions of section 9. be invested, applied or otherwise dealt with by the Court for his benefit in such manner as the Court thinks fit:
Provided that where compensation has been agreed and approved in accordance with the provisions of section 16, then the Commissioner of Labour may direct in writing that such compensation shall be paid by the employer direct to the workman."";
(b) by the insertion after the word "Court" in the fourth
line of subsection (3) of the following-
"ory if the compensation is not paid to the Court, the Commissioner of Labour";
(c) by the repeal of subsection (4); and
(d) by the insertion after the word "Court" in the second
line of subsection (6) of the following-
8.
"or of the Commissioner of Labour"'.
28.
Section 28 of the principal Ordinance is amended by Amendment the deletion of the semi-colon at the end of paragraph (b) of of section subsection (4), and the insertion thereafter in the said paragraph of the following-
** or the working of which is managed by the Armed Forces of the Crown in the Colony *"'.
7. amended-
The First Schedule to the principal Ordinance is Amendment
of First
Schedule.
"three".
Amendment
5.
Section 12 of the principal Ordinance is amended-
of section
12.
(a) by the repeal of subsection (2) and the substitution
therefor of the following-
(a) by the insertion after the figures "59" In the third line
of paragraph 2 of the following-
", or which would, if the said Ordinance were bind- ing on the Crown, be required to be so registered":