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wholly to the benefit of members of the fund in the shape of increases to the prospective pensions of the widows and orphans of the contributors to the fund at the date of the valuation, and of former contributors who had ceased to contribute on attaining the age of 65 or on leaving the service, as well as of increases to the existing pensions of the widows and orphans of those who have died since the 31st of December 1900, the date of the last valuation in such shares and proportions as shall be recommended by the Actuary.
Whether the members of the Fund have any legal claim under the original ordinance to participate in the whole or indeed in any part of such surplus may be a matter of argument. It was however recognized that if the Government took over the Fund it was desirable that the contributors should not feel that they had
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wholly to the benefit of members of the
fund in the shape of increases to the pros-
pective pensions of the widows and orphans
of the contributors to the fund at the date
of the valuation, and of former contributors
who had ceased to contribute on attaining the
age of 65 or on leaving the service, as well
as of increases to the existing pensions of
the widows and orphans of those who have died
since the 31st of December 1900
the date of
the last valuation in such shares and pro-
portions as shall be recommended by the
Actuary. Whether the members of the Fund have
any legal claim under the original ordinance
to participate in the whole or indeed in any
part of such surplus may be a matter of argu-
ment. It was however recognized that
if the
Government took over the Fund it was desirable
that
the contributors should not feel that they
had
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