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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

No. S. 207. The following Bills were read a first time at a meeting of the Council held on the 14th June, 1934 :-

Short title.

Amendment

of Ordin-

ance No. 21 of 1932, s. 2 (b) (i).

Amendment

of Ordin-

ance No. 21 of 1932, s. 2 (d).

Substitution

for Ordin-

ance No. 21 of 1932, s. 3.

Regulations.

Amendment

of Ordin-

ance No. 21 -- of 1932,

s. 17.

A BILL

INTITULED

[No. 17-7.6.34.-2.]

An Ordinance to amend the Pensions Ordinance, 1932.

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

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Pensions Amend- ment Ordinance, 1934.

2. Section 2 (b) (i) of the Pensions Ordinance, 1932, is amended by adding the following proviso at the end thereof :-

Provided also that no declaration that any office is a pensionable office shall be deemed to imply that any holder thereof, who is not on the permanent establishment of the Colony at the date of his retirement, shall be pensionable.

3. Section 2 (d) of the Pensions Ordinance, 1932, is amended by the deletion of the words "or under the Board of Education for England and Wales, or the Crown Agents for the Colonies, or the Colonial Audit Department (Home Establishment), or the Kenya and Uganda Railways and Harbour Administration" and by the substitution therefor of the words "or under the Crown Agents for the Colonies, or the Colonial Audit Department (Home Establishment), or the Kenya and Uganda Railways and Harbours Administration, or service which is pensionable under the Teachers (Super- annuation) Act, 1925".

4. Section 3 of the Pensions Ordinance, 1932, is repealed and the following section is substituted :-

3.—(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, with the sanction of the Secretary of State, to make regulations for the granting of pensions, gratuities and other allowances to persons who have been in the public service of the Colony, and to the dependants of such persons where such service is terminated by death.

(2) Every such regulation shall be laid before the Legisla tive Council and shall be published in the Gazette.

5. Section 17 of the Pensions Ordinance, 1932, is amend- ed by the substitution of the figure "10 (1) (b)" for the figures "10 (d)".