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(b)

(c)

(a)

(e)

the payment of salaries of persons in

the service of the Government of the

Colony or pensions, gratuities and

allowances at rates prescribed by law.

of persons formerly in that service;

the payment of pensions, gratuities or

allowances, and the making of grants,

at rates prescribed by law or, where no

rates are so prescribed, at auch rates as

the Secretary of State shall determine, to

or for the benefit of persons mentioned in

the foregoing paragraph, or their wives,

children and dependants whether such persons

are living or not, or, in special cases, to

or for the benefit of other persons resident

or previously resident in the Colony, or

their wives, children and dependants

whether such persons are living or not;

the making of grants to any fund or

association the purposes of which for the

time being include the assistance of any

persons mentioned in the preceding

paragraph;

any other purposes of the Government of the

Colony:

Provided that nothing in this sub-section shall

authorise the application, except for purposes

prescribed in the Currency Ordinance, 1935, as amended

by subsequent Ordinances or for the redemption of Hong

Kong currency, of any monies of the Exchange Fund

established by that Ordinance other than interest

received on behalf of the Fund on or after the

twenty-sixth day of December, 1941.

(2)