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Wednesday, July 5, 1972

NEW SCHEME FOR MARRIED WOMEN IN GOVT. SERVICE

Necessary amendments to the pensions legislation in respect

of married women in Government service have been drafted and should

reach the Executive Council in about three weeks' time.

This was stated today by the Acting Colonial Secretary, the

Hon. M.D.A. Clinton, in the Legislative Council in reply to a question

by the Hon. Ellen Li.

Mrs. Li had asked when full details would be announced of the

scheme for pensionability of married women in Government service and of

the arrangements for their employment on contract, and when these schemes

would be implemented.

Mr. Clinton said the Senior Service Council reached agreement

at the end of April on the detailed scheme, the substance of which had

been approved by the Finance Committee in January.

He said full details of the approved schemes, including the

terms for employing married women on contract, would be announced when

the Bill comes up for consideration by the Legislative Council.

"I hope that the schemes can then be implemented before the end

of the year," he added,

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