CO129-616-2 Hong Kong War Memorial Fund (Amendment) Ordinance 1948 6-2-1948 - 16-11-1948 — Page 70

A BILL.

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INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend the Hong Kong War Memorial Fund

Ordinance, 1947.

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Hong Kong War Short title. Memorial Fund Amendment Ordinance, 1948, and shall be read

as one with the Hong Kong War Memorial Fund Ordinance, 1947, Ord. No. 10 hereinafter referred to as the principal Ordinance.

of 1947.

2. Section 4 of the principal Ordinance is hereby amended Amendment as follows:-

of section 4 of the

Ordinance.

(a) by the insertion in paragraph (a) of sub-section (1) principal and in sub-section (3) of the section of the words "or dependent parent

"after the word "children"

children", wherever such word occurs therein; and

(b) by the repeal of sub-section 2 of the section and the substitution therefor of the following as sub-section (2):-

(2) In this Ordinance-

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'child' includes a child not born in wedlock;

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wife' includes the mother of a child not born in wedlock and the word widow' shall be construed accordingly; and

dependent parent' includes a person wholly or substantially maintained by an officer or member referred to in sub-section (3) of this section, who during the minority of such officer or member acted in the place of a parent to such officer or member.'

Objects and Reasons.

Section 4 of the Ilong Kong War Memorial Fund Ordinance, 1947, (the principal Ordinance) confines the grant of benefit to the widow, wife or children of an officer or member of the organisa- tions or members of the categories specified in the First or Second Schedule to the principal Ordinance. In a number of cases, particularly where a deceased member was unmarried, application has been made for assistance from the Fund by dependent parents of such deceased officers or members.

2. The object of this Bill is to provide by amendment of section 4 of the principal Ordinance that a dependent parent be included within the persons related to an officer or member of an organisation or category specified in the First and Second Schedules to the principal Ordinance who may benefit from the Memorial Fund.

J. B. GRIFFIN,

Attorney General.

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