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784 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 8, 1909.

Objects and Reasons.

To provide for the inspection of Steam Boilers and "Prime Movers" with the view to safeguard persons em ployed in and about buildings where such machinery is used.

HENRY S. BERKELEY, Attorney General.

A BILL

Short title

and con- struction.

Repeals >cc- tion 19 of the Principal Ordinance.

Provision for case of

motherless

orphans,

ENTITLED

An Ordinance to amend the Widows' and Or-

phans' Pension Ordinance, 1908.

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Widows' and Orphaus' Pension (Amendment) Ordinance, 1909, and shall be read as one with the Widows' and Orphaus' Pension Ordinance, 1908, hereinafter called the Principal Ordinance.

2. Section 19 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby repealed and the following section is substituted in place thereof :-

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19. When orphans have no living mother or step- mother entitled to a pension and their ages entitle them to a pension, the pension to which the wife of the deceased contributor would have been entitled if she had survived him or which she was receiving at the time of her death shall be divided equally among such orphans and if any one of such orphans ceases to be eligible for pension the portion of the pension drawn by him shall be equally divided among those remaining entitled."

Memorandum.

The object of the Ordinance is to repeal section 19 of the Widows' and Orphans' Pension Ordinance, 1908, which limits the pension of an orphan to one-fourth of the widow's pension in cases where there are less than three children entitled to pension, and to provide that the whole amount of the widow's pension shall be equally divided among the children of a pensionable age.

HENRY S. Berkeley, Attorney General.

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