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Short title.

Substita- tion for Ordinance No. 37 of 1932, s. 6 (2).

A BILL

INTITULED

[No. 37-13.9.34.-1.]

An Ordinance to amend the Police Force 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 Police Force Amendment Ordinance, 1934.

2. Section 6 of the Police Force Ordinance, 1932, is amended by the substitution of the following sub-section for sub-section (2) thereof :-

any

(2) Such period of engagement may include a probation- ary period, which in the case of a subordinate officer, constable or member of a crew shall not exceed six months. Should person thus engaged be found during his probationary period to be unsatisfactory, the Inspector General may at any time. during such probationary period terminate the engagement.

Objects and Reasons.

Under section 10 of the principal Ordinance the inter- preters and telephone clerks employed by the Police Depart- ment fall for pension purposes under the ordinary civil pen- sions law, and it is considered that the conditions for such officers in respect of probation and confirmation should be assimilated to those in force for similar officers in the ordinary civil service, namely a minimum probation of two years. amendment of section 6 (2) of the principal Ordinance is there- fore necessary confining the limitation of six months for pro- bation to the disciplined staff of the Force.

An

September, 1934.

R. E. LINDSELL,

Attorney General.

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