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WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION (AMENDMENT) Ord. No. 20/74

L.S.

HONG KONG

No. 20 of 1974

I assent.

MURRAY MACLEHOSE,

Governor.

28th March, 1974.

An Ordinance to amend the Workmen's Compensation Ordinance.

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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 Workmen's Com- Short title pensation (Amendment) Ordinance 1974 and shall come into and com- operation on a day to be appointed by the Governor by notice in the Gazette.

mencement.

2. Section 2 of the principal Ordinance is amended in Amendment paragraph (a) of the proviso the subsection (1) by deleting "one of section 2. thousand five hundred" and substituting the following-

3.

"two thousand”.

Section 6 of the principal Ordinance is amended-

(a) in paragraph (a)(ii) by deleting "or" in the last place

where it occurs;

(b) in paragraph (a)(iii) by inserting after "1970" the

following-

"and before the 1st day of July 1974"; and

(c) by inserting after paragraph (a)(iii) the following new

sub-paragraph-

"(iv) where the accident happens on or after the 1st day of July 1974, be a sum equal to thirty- six months' earnings or sixty thousand dollars, whichever is less:

Provided that in no case shall the sum payable under this sub-paragraph be less than nine thousand six hundred dollars;".

(Cap. 282.)

Amendment of section 6.