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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

No. S. 311.-The following Bill was read a first time at a Meeting of the Council held on the 29th December, 1910 :--

Short title and

ecustretion,

Amends

section 7 of

A BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance to amend the Widows' and

Orphans' 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 Orphans' Pension Amendment Ordinance, 1911,” and shall be read as one with the Widows' and Orphans' Pension Ordinance, 1908, hereinafter called The Principal Ordinance” and with the Widows' and Orphans' Pension (Amendment) Ordinance, 1909.

2. Section 7 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended by the insertion at the end of sub-section (1) of the Principal the following further Proviso :—

Ordinance,

Right of public officer retiring and electing to contribute on former dollar salary.

“Provided further that in the case of an officer holding a post the salary of which is on & dollar basis the abatement shall be made in dollars at four per centum of his nominal salary and if such officer is in receipt of exchange compensation allowance such exchange com- pensation allowance shall be calculated upon such nominal dollar salary before the abatement at four per centum as aforesaid has been made.”

3. The following section is hereby inserted after section 10 of the Principal Ordinance :-

“10.--(a.) In the case of a public officer retiring from the public service whose pension is paid on a dollar basis and who elects to contribute on the basis of his former dollar salary such pension shall be reduced by the amount of the abate- ment at four per centum of his former dollar salary and the balanes shall be payable to him converted into sterling at the rate of exchange at which he is entitled to receive such pen- sion."

Memorandum.

This amending Ordinance is necessary to remove doubts as to the interpretation of the existing Ordinance with regard to the method of fixing the amount of contribution to be paid by officers drawing salaries fixed on a dollar basis. It will legalise the existing practice and give effect to the Resolution passed by the Legislative Council on August 7th, 1902.

W. REES DAVIES, Attorney General,

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