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1965.

Approved by the Governor in Council the 28th day of September,

Clerk of Councils.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

28th September, 1965.

(Secretariat GR10/3231/61)

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL RESOLUTION.

PENSIONS ORDINANCE.

(Chapter 89).

Resolution made and passed by the Legislative Council on the 29th day of September, 1965,

WHEREAS——

(1) Bensic CHENG Social Welfare Officer of the Department of Social Welfare (hereinafter referred to as the said officer) was first appointed to the non-pensionable post of Female Inspector Secretariat for Chinese Affairs on 3rd March, 1941.

(2) The said officer was confirmed to the pensionable establish- ment with effect from the 1st day of May, 1946 on the recommendation of Secretariat Circular No. 15.

(3) Such confirmation should not have been given as the said officer was not serving on probation to the permanent establishment prior to the 25th day of October. 1941 the date referred to in the above mentioned Secretariat Circular there was at that time no post against which the said officer could have been on probation to the permanent establishment,

(4) Notwithstanding that the said officer was therefore serving in a non-pensionable post from the 3rd day of March, 1941 to the 31st day of March, 1948 and that Regulation 19(2)(a) of the Pensions Regulations Chapter 89 provides that three quarters of such period may be taken into account for pension purposes it is desired that the pension to which the said officer is entitled shall be supplemented by an ex gratia award calculated by counting in full the said officer's service for pension purposes from the date on which she was wrongly confirmed to the pensionable establishment namely the 1st day of May, 1946 and by counting three quarters of the said officer's service for pension purposes from the 3rd day of March, 1941 to the 30th day of April, 1946.

Resolved that in addition to the maximum gratuity of $36,180, and reduced pension of $8,683.20 per annum to which the said officer is entitled there be granted to the said officer an ex gratia gratuity of $810 and an ex gratia pension of $194.40 per annum.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

29th September, 1955.

(Secretariat PR412/3841/46)

Deputy Clerk of Counelis.