CO129-505-8 Widows' and Orphans' Pension legislation- raising of pensionable age limit of male orphans 22-6-1927 - 7-11-1927 — Page 4

It is done by Trinidad and

Barbados.

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nevertheless providing for this; but it is still desirable that

it should be included done

if possible.

The existing

(2) Period of Contribution.

Ordinance provides for contributions of officers

after 35 successive years of contribution, In order to allow for cases of broken serviceą it is

proposed to amend this to 35 years (Section 9).

The rules, however, are based on the assumption

that the period of contribution will be completed

35 years after the commencement of contributions

so that neither the new nor the old definition

exactly corresponds with the rule. If an officer

we to contribute for 35 years and may have periods

of broken service in the meanwhile, it is clear that

his age at the completion of contribution, which

Xe must be known in order to compute the pension,

cannot be ascertained. This section should, there-

fore, provide for contributions to cease 35 years

after the commencement (or on reaching the age of

65).

leaving

(3) Officers the Service. The old

provisions are repealed and more detailed provisions,

which are claimed to be almost exhaustive, are

(see:10)

substituted Actually, they are by no means

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exhaustive. In the first place, the definition

of "Public Service" is not always clear.

Presumably

it always means the Public Service

af

Hong Kong

but this is not explicitly stated.

There is another

much more serious mission. The amendment

provides, in effect, that any officer leaving the

service of the Colony in any way, with or without

pension, shall have an option to continue his

contributions, and explains in detail what these

contributions are to be how they are to be paid

in