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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25. 1989
RESOLUTION ON WIDOW'S PENSION APPLICATION PASSED
THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY) PASSED THAT IT APPROVE A MODIFICATION OF THE PENSIONS ORDINANCE
TO BUY BACK WIDOWED NURSING OFFICER
HER PRE-MARRIAGE FENSIONABLE SERVICE.
A RESOLUTION TO ALLOW A
SERVICE
AS
MOVING A MOTION TO
MODIFY THE
APPLICATION
SIR HON
OF
ORDINANCE. THE CHIEF SECRETARY. THE THAT THE CASE CONCERNED AN APPLICATION BY NURSING OFFICER II WHO RETIRED ON MAY 21,
THE PENSIONS DAVID FORD. EXPLAINED MRS YAN LAM PUI-FONG. A 1989.
27. 1966. HE SAID ON MAY
THE
AN GOVERNMENT IN MOOD HAD ACCEPTED THE POLICY THAT MARRIAGE SHOULD CEASE TO TO THE APPOINTMENT OF WOMEN OFFICERS ON PENSIONABLE TERMS.
ENLIGHTENED BE A BAR
OFFICERS WERE
TO "PRIOR TO THAT, WOMEN
REQUIRED
RETIRE ON THAN FIVE YEARS SERVICE, COULD MARRIAGE, AND IF THEY HAD NOT LESS RECEIVE A MARRIAGE GRATUITY UNDER THE PENSIONS LEGISLATION.
AND
"MARRIED WOMEN OFFICERS WERE APPOINTED ON TEMPORARY TERMS,
TO TRANSFER TO THE PERMANENT SHOULD THEY BE WIDOWED. WERE ALLOWED ESTABLISHMENT," HE SAID.
17,
1972,
SIR DAVID SAID THE POLICY FOR THE REMOVAL OF THE WAS NOT
UNTIL IMPLEMENTED
NOVEMBER RETROSPECTIVE EFFECT TO MAY 27. 1966.
27.
MARRIAGE BAR ALTHOUGH
WITH
WERE 1966
ALLOWED AN "WOMEN OFFICERS MARRIED AFTER MAY
1972. TO OPTION, TO BE EXERCISED WITHIN SIX MONTHS FROM NOVEMBER 17.
TERMS PERMANENT
BACK TRANSFER TO
AND TO BUY
THEIR PRE-MARRIAGE SERVICE BY REFUNDING THEIR MARRIAGE GRATUITY," HE SAID.
THE RULES MRS YAN HAD MARRIED IN 1967. AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH
то REQUIRED WAS
RETIRE ON
AND MARRIAGE THEN PREVAILING SHE RE-APPOINTED ON TEMPORARY TERMS.
WAS
MRS YAN
WAS
SUBSEQUENTLY
WIDOWED, AND
SHE
TRANSFERRED
TO
PERMANENT TERMS ON FEBRUARY 27, 1972.
OPTION
17.
1972
TO BUY
BACK
HER
SHE WAS THEREFORE NOT ON TEMPORARY TERMS ON NOVEMBER
AN TO EXERCISE WAS TIIUS UNABLE PRE-MARRIAGE SERVICE, SIR DAVID SAID.
AND
MRS YAN'S
WAS
DRAWN UP
AND
BACK
HER
"IT IS ALMOST CERTAIN THAT A SITUATION SUCH AS NOT ENVISAGED AT THE TIME THE OPTION ARRANGEMENTS WERE IT WOULD BE UNFAIR TO DEPRIVE HER OF THE OPPORTUNITY TO BUY PRE-MARRIAGE SERVICE BECAUSE OF HER WIDOWHOOD," HE SAID.
OF THE
MARRIAGE
BAR
BEEN
IMPLEMENTED
ON
HAD
HAD THE REMOVAL MAY 27. 1966 WHEN THE POLICY WAS ACCEPTED, MRS YAN WOULD NOT HAVE TO RETIRE FROM PENSIONABLE SERVICE ON HER MARRIAGE IN 1967.
"SUBSEQUENTLY, HAD