HONG KONG
No. 23 of 1965.
I assent.
Wheuch
„Governor“
29th April. 1965,
An Ordinance further to amend the Workmen's Compensation Ordin-
ance 1953.
(30th April, 1965.]
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 Workmen's Compensation Short tide. (Amendment) Ordinance 1965.
2. Section 5 of the Workmen's Compensation Ordinance 1953 Amendment (hereinafter referred to as the principal Ordinance) is amended, in of section 6. paragraph (a), by the deletion of the words "be a sum equal to thirty- (28 af 1953). six months' earnings or ten thousand dollars" and the substitution therefor of the following--
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where the accident happens before the 1st day of May, 1965, be a sum equal to thirty-six months earnings or ten thousand dollars, whichever is less, and shall, where the accident happens on or after the 1st day of May, 1965, be a sum equal to thirty-six months' earnings or eighteen thousand dollars,"