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Short title and

construction.

Amendment of the

Principal Ordinance by the

addition of

new section.

The

Governor-in- Council may cause the retirement of

any Judge or other Public Officer on their

attaining the age of sixty

years.

A BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance to amend the Pension Ordinance,

1862.

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 Pension Amendment Ordinance, 1909, and shall be read and coustrued as one with the Pension Ordinance, 1862, (hereinafter called "the Principal Ordinance"), and this Ordinance and the said Ordinance may be cited together

"The Pension Ordinances 1862 and 1909 ".

as

2. The Principal Ordinance is hereby amended by the addition of the following section :—

* 3. The Governor-in-Council may (subject as re- gards officers appointed under instructions from or through the Secretary of State for the Colonies, to the approval of such Secretary of State) require any Judge or other Public Officer to retire from the Public Service of the Colony at any time after he attains the age of sixty years."

Short title and con- struction.

Amendment of the Principal Ordinance.

Repeal of section 4 of Amending Ordinauce.

Memorandum.

Under the existing Pension Rules there is a rule (No. 21) declaring that the Governor-in-Council is empowered to retire any Public Officer at the age of sixty.

This rule is without any statutory authority and is therefore ultra vires.

It is therefore desirable that such statutory authority should be given to the Governor-in-Council.

F. A. HAZELAND,

A BILL

ENTITLED

Attorney General,

An Ordinance to further amend the Liquors

Ordinance, 1909.

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 Liquors Or- dinance Amendment Ordinance, 1910, and shall be read and construed as one with the Liquors Ordinance, 1909, herein- after called "the Principal Ordinance" and the Liquors Ordinance Amendment Ordinance, 1909, and may be cited together as the Liquors Ordinances, 1909-1910.

2. Section 56 of Principal Ordinance is hereby amended by striking out at the end thereof the following words "or for use at Government House".

3. Section 4 of the Liquors Ordinance Amendment Ordinance, 1909, is hereby repealed.

Memorandum.

This Bill gives effect to instructions of the Secretary of State for the Colonies who is not prepared to sanction the privilege granted to the Governor by section 56 of the Principal Ordinance, inserted at the instance of the Unofficial Members, because the privilege has recently been abolished as opportunity offered in those Colonies in which it pre- viously existed.

F. A. HAZELAND,