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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 9, 1927.
(5) if the grantee enters or engages in or continues to carry on any business, occupation or employment, which shall be in the opinion of the Governor, disgraceful in itself or injurious to the public, or in which he shall make use of the fact of his former employment in the police force in a manner which the Governor considers to be discreditable and improper.
Any pension or periodical or deferred gratuity or allowance ordered to be for- feited and withdrawn as aforesaid shall cease as from the date of the cause of such forfeiture. Provided that if any question shall arise as to the com petency of any court or as to whether any sentence imposed comes within the intendment of the first paragraph of this regulation then the decision of the Governor in Council thereon shall be final and conclusive. Provided further that any pension, gratuity or allowance ceasing as aforesaid shall be restored with retrospective effect in the case of a person who after conviction at any time receives a free pardon. For the purpose of this regulation the enduring of the punishment to which any person has been or may be sentenced shall not be deemed to be or to have the effect of a free pardon.
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And provided further that where a pension, gratuity or allowance ceases for any reason aforesaid the Secretary of State for the Colonies or, if the grantee is resident in the Colony then the Governor in Council with the approval of the Secretary of State, may cause all or any part of the moneys to which the grantee would have been entitled by way of pension, gratuity or allow- ance during the remainder of the grantee's life or during any shorter period or periods, either continuous or discontinuous, to be paid to or applied for the benefit of all or any exclusive of the others of the following persons, that is to say, the dependents of the grantee, and the grantee himself if ani when his sentence, if any as aforesaid, shall have expired, in such propor- tions, if there be more than one recipient or beneficiary, and manner and subject to such conditions, qualifications and restrictions as the Secretary of State or the Governor in Council with such approval as aforesaid, as the case may be, may see fit to direct and impose. Any such directions, condi- tions, qualifications and restrictions may in like mauner be revised, altered, added to or withdrawn at any time and from time to time.
E. W. HAMILTON,
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
7th September, 1927.
Deputy Clerk of Councils.
APPOINTMENTS, &c.
No. 513. His Majesty the KING has been pleased to approve the appointment of the Honourable Mr. WILLIAM EDWARD LEONARD SHENTON, to be an Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council during the absence on leave of the Honourable Sir HENRY EDWARD POLLOCK, Kt., K.C.
9th September, 1927.
NOTICES.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S Department,
To the respective Owners of Tsat Tsz Mui Village Houses Nos. 10 and 19.
No. 514. With reference to Government Notification No. 179 of 1927, (Gazette of 25th March, 1927), and to Government Notification No. 236 of 1927, (Gazette of 22nd April, 1927), it is hereby notified under section 4 of the Crown Lands Resumption Ordinance, 1900, Ordinance No. 10 of 1900, that His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to nominate Mr. ARTHUR EDGAR WRIGHT, J.P., Chartered Surveyor, to be a member of the Board of Arbitrators to determine the amount of compensation to be paid in respect of the resumption of Tsat Tsz. Mui Village Houses Nos. 10 and 19.
In the event of failure by you or either of you to nominate a member to represent you respectively on the said Board within seven days from the date of publication of this notice the Chairman of the Board will appoint a person on your behalf, or on behalf of the owner failing to nominate.
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