LEGISLATIVE
Ruvised oODY
CIL
Meeting to be held on Wednesday, 26th April, 1961, at 2.30 p.m.
ORDER OF BUSINESS
1. CONFIRMATION OF MINUTES OF MEETING HELD ON 12TH APRIL, 1961.
PAPERS TO RE LATO.
GOVERNMENT JUSIN239.
(1) Ex Gratis Feusion for Ajaib Blogh,
The Colonial Secretary to move the following resolution :-
WHEREAS
(1) WAIR SINGH (hereinafter referred to as "the pensioner")
Joined the Hong Kong Folice Reserve Force established under the Hong Kong Police Reserve Ordinance, 1927, oo or before 7th August, 1940, and served with the Indian Company of that Force, as a constable until 25th December, 1941;
(2) when the Fensioner was on duty with that Force, on 16th
December, 1941, he was wounded by Japanese shell fire;
(3) the permanenc disability of the Pensioner resulting from
such wounds has been assessed at forty per cent;
(4) with effect from 26th December, 1941, the Fensioner has
been awarded a pension under section 13 of the Hong Kong Folice Reserve Ordinance, 1927;
(5) the maximum pension which can be paid to the Pensioner by way of peosion under that section is $1,000.00 per annum; (6) if the Pensioner had been a member of the Hong Kong
Volunteer Defence Corps, constituted under the Volunteer Ordinance, 1933, he would have received a pension under tho Volunteer and Naval Volunteer Pensions Ord loance, 1950 (now Chapter 202) which, in respect of the period after 30th January, 1955, would have exceeded the limit of $1,000 per annum imposed by section 13 of the Hong Kong Police Reserve Ordinance, 1927,
(7) notwithstanding that the Pensioner, on the said 18th
December, 1941. was not a member of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, it is desired that an ex gratia pension be awarded to the Pensioner so that the total pension received by him should not be less than he would have received if he had bean a member of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps on the said 18th December, 1941;
RESOLVED that there be granted to the Pensioner, with effect
from the 31st January, 1955, an ex gratia pension of such amount as from time to time, added to the pension payable to the Pensioner under section 13 of the Hong Kong Police Reserve Ordinance, 1927, would make up such pension to the amount which the Pensioner would have received if he had been a member of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps on the said 18th December, 1941.