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PENSION BENEFITS

HONG KONG

No. 36 OF 1987

I assent.

Ord. No. 36/87

A179

L.S.

David WILSON,

Governor.

25 June 1987

An Ordinance to make provision for the granting of pension benefits in

respect of the public service, and for purposes connected therewith.

[1 July 1987]

Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent

of the Legislative Council thereof.

1.

(1) This Ordinance may be cited as the Pension Benefits Ordin- Short title and ance 1987.

commencement.

(2) This Ordinance shall come into operation on 1 July 1987.

2. (1) In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires—

"additional pension" means an additional pension granted under section 15

or 16;

Interpretation.

"authorized increase" has the same meaning as in the Pensions (Increase) (Cap. 305.)

Ordinance;

"child" in relation to an officer--

(a) includes a step-child;

(b) includes a child adopted by the officer, but does not include a child

of the officer adopted by another person;

(c) does not include an illegitimate child; and

(d) where polygamy lawfully subsists, does not include a child not being an adopted child of the officer unless its mother was, at the time of its birth, the officer's wife as defined in this subsection;