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"To amend the Colonial Governors (Pensions) Act."
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Repeal and re-enact-
ment of Section 12
of "The Colonial Governors (Pen- sions) Act, 1865."
WHEREAS doubts have arisen with respect to the pension to be assigned to a Colonial Governor, in certain circumstances not expressly provided for under "The Colonial Governors (Pensions) Acts, 1865 and 1872": Be it enacted, by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons, in this present Parlia- liament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-
1. Section 12 of the "Governors (Pensions) Act, 1865," is hereby repealed.
One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State may, with the consent of the Lords Com- missioners of the Treasury, from time to time, determine under what conditions and to what extent any
Officer shall be deemed for the purposes
Secretary of State to determine when an Officer is in
of "The Colonial Governors (Pensions) Acts, 1865 administration of
and 1872," to have been administering the Govern- Government for purposes of pension. ment of any Colony while administering the same provisionally, or while absent from His Govern- ment with permission of Her Majesty. "And it shall be lawful for the said Secretary of State to determine that during any period for which an
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Officer has rendered public services in a Colony by the desire of Her Majesty's Government, and has received for such services a salary or remune- ration not less in amount than the salary of a Governor of such Colony, the said Officer shall be deemed, for the purposes of this Act, to have been administering the Government thereof."
II. This Act may be cited for all purposes as Short title of Act. "The Colonial Governors (Pensions) Act, 1875."
III. This Act shall be read as one with "The Construction of Colonial Governors (Pensions) Acts, 1865 and 1872."
Act.
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