CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5] — Page 285

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ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,

Hongkong......

4th

arch.1981.

REPORT ON ORDINANCE No......5.

....................of 1921.

I have examined the accompanying Ordinance intituled

an

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Ordinance to amend the Widows' and Orphans' Pension Ordinance, 1908,

and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the

Governor's Instructions.

The object of this Ordinance is to except from the operation

of the Widows' and Orphane' Pension Ordinance, 1906, (a) the Indian

and Chinese members of the Police Force and (b) all Government ser-

vants whose pay is less than $420 per annum. $420 per annum is the minimum pay in the clerical service under the revised salaries

scheme:

It

the former limit, fixed in 1906, was $240 per annum. is believed that the classes affected will welcome the relief from

liability to contribute to a fund which is not so useful to them

as to those members of the service to whom the ordinance will still

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