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PENSIONS ORDINANCE.

(Chapter 89).

PENSIONS (AMENDMENT) (No. 2) REGULATIONS, 1955.

In exercise of the powers conferred by subsection (1) of section 3 of the Pensions Ordinance, the Governor in Council, with the sanction of the Secretary of State, has made the following regulations-

1. These regulations may be cited as the Pensions (Amend- Citation, ment) (No. 2) Regulations, 1955.

2. The Pensions Regulations (hereinafter referred to as the Addition principal regulations) are amended by the addition after regula- tion 18A of the following new regulation-

"Effect of Salaries Revision. 1950.

of new regulation 18B to the principal

(Vol. IX,

18B. (1) In the application of regulation 18 where regulations. the pensionable emoluments of an officer for a period 1. 6). prior to the first day of October, 1953, are required to be taken into account, there shall be taken into account in lieu of such pensionable emoluments the pensionable emoluments which such officer would have enjoyed during such period had he been subject at the com- mencement of such period to a scale of pay operative in this Colony on the first day of October, 1953, in consequence of the Salarics Revision, 1953, if this shall be to an officer's advantage.

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(2) "Salaries Revision, 1953" shall mean for the purposes of this regulation the revision of salaries effected as at the tst day of October, 1953-

(3) If any question arises as to whether any salary is according to a scale of pay operative in the Colony in consequence of the Salaries Revision, 1953, the decision thereon of the Governor in Council shall be final.

(4) This regulation shall be deemed to have had effect from the 1st day of October, 1953-"