CO129-624-4 Public Services Commission- appointment of chairman 1-12-1950 - 30-6-1951 — Page 10

A BILL

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend the Public Services Commission Ordin-

ance, 1950.

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

1.

This Ordinance may be cited as the Public Services Short title. Commission (Amendment) Ordinance, 1951, and shall be read as one with the Public Services Commission Ordinance, 1950, Ordinance hereinafter referred to as the principal Ordinance.

No. 14 of 1950.

2. Section 4 of the principal Ordinance is hereby amended Amendment by the deletion of the proviso and the substitution therefor of the following—

"Provided that the prohibition hereinbefore contained shall not extend to-

(i) the appointment of a Judge of the Supreme Court

as Chairman; or

(ii) the making of a temporary appointment as Chairman

under subsection (2) of section 3; or

(iii) the appointment of a person who, although still the holder of any such office or post as aforesaid is on leave prior to retirement and has already received official notification of the pension which will be payable to him for service which comprised service in the office or post of which he is the holder."

Objects and Reasons.

Under section 4 of the Public Services Commission Ordinance, 1950, the holder of a pensionable office in the Colony is ineligible for appointment as Chairman or as a member of the Commission. This Bill by clause 2 seeks to amend section 4 so as to make possible the appointment of a Judge of the Supreme Court to be Chairman of the Public Services Commission notwithstanding the general ineligibility for appointment of a holder of a pension- able office.

J. B. GRIFFIN,

Attorney General.

of section 4 of the principal Ördinance.

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