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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

HONG KONC

Meeting to be held on Thursday, 18th March, 1947, at 2.30 p.m.

ORDER OF BUSINESS

1. Confirmation of Minutes of meeting held on 27th February, 1947.

2. Papers to be laid.

3. Motions.

Motions.

The Attorney General to move the following resolutions :

1. Resolved that ex gratia additions to pensions should be granted in cases

where such additions would have been permissible......

(A) under Regulation 17(1) both of Pension Regulations A and B made

under the Pensions Ordinance, 1982, if the words

a person employed in the public service in this Colony has been permanently injured without his own default, by some injury or ill health attributable to the conditions of bis detention in the Far Eastern area during the period of the Japanese invasion and oc- cupation; or where

appeared between the words Where and a" in the first line of paragraph 1 of Regulation 17 in both Pension Regulations A and B. (B) under Regulations 21, 27 and 33 of the regulations made under the

Police Force Ordinance, 1988, as if the words

an officer has been permanently injured without his own default by some injury or ill health attributable to the conditions of his de- tention in the Far Eastern area during the period of the Japanese invasion and occupation; or when

appeared between the words When and

each of the respective regulations.

in the first line of

2. Resolved that er gratia pensions should be granted in cases where the grant of such pensions would have been permaissible under Section 18 of the Pensiona Ordinance, 1932, and Regulation 14 made under the Police Force Ordinance, 1932, if the words

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or who having been detained in the Far Eastern area during the period of the Japanese invasion and occupation dies before being passed fit for service in a Colony and before being retired on pension when death was directly attributable or aggravated by the circumstances of such detention and without his own default, appeared between the word and cypher duties," and the words pension in the sixth line of both Sub-section (1) of Section 18 of the Pensions Ordinance and paragraph (1) of Regulation 14 made under the Police Force Ordinance, 1982.

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A