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An Ordinance to amend the Pension Ordinance, 1862.

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the

advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as

follows:-

This Ordinance may be cited as the Pension amendment

Ordinance, 1917, and shall be read and construed as one with

the Pension Ordinance, 1882, hereinafter called the principal

Ordinance, and this Ordinance and the said Ordinance may be

oited together as the Pension Ordinances 1862 and 1917.

Section 3 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and

the following section is substituted therefor: -

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3.

Subject to the approval of the Secretary of State

as regards officera appointed under instructions from or

through the Secretary of State, the Governor in Council may:

(a) require any judge or other public officer to retire

from the service at any time after he attains the

age of fifty five years; or

(b) require any judge or other public officer to retire

from the service at any time if, in the opinion of

the Governor in Council, such judge or other public

officer is unable from any cause to discharze

efficiently the duties of his office.

Objects and Reasons

The object of this bill is to give the Governot

in Council power to require any judge or other publio cfficer

to retire after he attains the age of 55 years, or to require

any Judge or other public officer to retire at any time on the

ground of inability to discharre efficiently the duties of his

office.

(sd.) J. H. Kemp,

Attorney General. 14 May, 1917.