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Ex
HONGKONG.
No. 29 of 1917.
1 assent to this Ordinance.
CLAUD SEVERN,
Officer Administering the Government.
30th November, 1917.
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An Ordinance to amend the Pension Orli-
nance, 1862,
[30th November, 1917.]
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Peusion Short title Amendment Ordinance, 1917, and shall be read and and con- construed as one with the Pension Ordinance, 1862, struction. hereinafter called the principal Ordinance, and this Ordinance Ordinance and the said Ordinance may be cited to 1863. gether as the Pension Ordinances, 1862 and 1917.
No, 2 of
2. Section 3 of the principal Ordinance is repealed Repeal of
Ordinance und the following section is substituted therefor:-
No. 2 of
Retirement
of judge or
other officer
on attaining
55 years, or
in case of inability to Fischarge his duties.
stitution
3. Subject to the approval of the Seere 1962, 3, tary of State as regards officers appointed and sub- under instructions from or through the of new Secretary of State, the Governor in Council section. may:-
(a) require any judge or other public
officer to retire from the service
at any time after he attains tho
age of fifty-five years; or
(6) require any judge or other publie officer to retire from the service
at any time if, in the opinion of Governor in Council, such judge or other public officer is unable from any cause to discharge effici- ently the duties of his office,
Batice.
3. This Ordinance shall apply to every judge and to Application every other public officer, whether such judge or other of Ordi- public officer was appointed before the cominencement of this Ordinance or shall be appointed hereafter, and notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the Interpretation Ordinance, 1911, or in any other Ordinance law or Ordinance whatsoever.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 29th day of November, 1917.
No. 31 of 1911.
E. BULLOCK,
Clerk of Councils.
Assented to by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Goverument, the 30th day of November, 1917.
A. G. M. FLETCHER,
Colonial Secretary.
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