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Enclosure 1.

C.O-

23705 418

(Draft 28.5.09).

16 JUL 05.

A

BILL

entitled

brt title.

peals section

An Ordinance to amend the Widows and Orphans'

Pension Ordinance, 1908.

Be it enacted etc.

and

1. This Ordinance may be cited as The Widows

Orphans' Pension (Amendment) Ordinance 1909 and

shall be read as one with the Widows' and Orphans'

Ordinance 1908 hereinafter called the Principal

Ordinance.

2. Section 19 of the Principal Ordinance is

hereby repealed and the following section is

substituted in place thereof:-

of the

incipal

inance.

Provision for

case of mother-

less orphana.

*19.

When orphans having no living mother or

step-mother entitled to a pension and

their ages entitle them to pension such

pension shall be equally divided among

such orphans, and if anyone of such

of

orphans ceases to be eligible for pension

the portion of the pension drawn by him

shall be equally divided among those

remaining entitled."