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27. The new section 33 (3) makes general a principal which has already been adopted in the principal Ordinance, and in Ordinance No. 5 of 1921, and which it is desired to apply also to the case of Indian prison officers.

28. The new section 33 (4) is inserted by way of abund- ant caution. The new section 33 (5) merely expresses the rule which has always been followed in the case of refunds under the Widows' and Orphans' Pensions Ordi-

nances.

29. The new section 34 gives the Governor in Council power to extend the time for doing any act which the priucipal Ordinance requires or enables any person to do.

30. Section 19 of this Ordinance is a temporary provi sion giving the option of continuing to contribute, both to ludian prison officers and to officers on agreement who are in fact contributing at present.

31. An officer may enter the service (a) while a bachelor, (b) while married, (c) while a widower with children of pensionable age and (d) while a widower with- out any child of pensionable age. Logically, it would seem that an officer who enters the service while a widower without any child of pensionable age should be treated in the same way as an officer who enters the service while a bachelor. In the Rules in Schedule A to the principal Ordinance, however, an officer who enters the service while a widower without any child of pensionable age is treated in the same way as an officer who enters the ser- vice while a widower with children of pensionable age. In practice, this provision of the Ordinance has not been followed. The practice is now regularized and legalized by the alteration of the headings to section A and section C of the Rules in the new Schedule. A note is added at the beginning of section A and certain consequential amendments have been made.

31st January, 1927.

J. H. KEMP,

Attorney General.