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A BILL

To

Enclosure No. 4

Amend the Pneumoconiosis (Compensation) Ordinance.

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 Pneumoconiosis (Compensa- Short title. tion) (Amendment) Ordinance 1987.

2. Section 26(1) of the principal Ordinance is amended--

(a) in paragraph (b) by deleting "and";

(b) by inserting, after paragraph (b), the following—

3.

“(ba) to conduct and finance educational, publicity, research and other programmes to prevent pneumoconiosis; and".

Amendment of section 26.

(Cap. 360.)

Section 28 of the principal Ordinance is amended by inserting, Amendment of after paragraph (e), the following—

"(ea) expenses incurred by the Board for the purposes of section.

26(1)(ba);".

section 28.

4. Section 29 of the principal Ordinance is amended by inserting, Amendment of after subsection (2), the following

“(3) The Governor may approve or reject the programme and estimates submitted to him under subsection (1) and, in the case of a rejection, may require the Board to resubmit, within such time as he may direct, the programme or estimates, or both, modified in such manner as he may

direct.

section 29.