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A BILL

INTITULED

[No. 22-27.5.35.--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- Short title ment Ordinance, 1935.

2. Section 8 of the Pensions Ordinance, 1932, is Amendment amended-

of Ordinance No. 21 of 1932, s. 8,

(i) by the repeal of paragraph (c) thereof and the sub- by sub- stitution of the following paragraph therefor :--

(e) on or after attaining the age of forty five, with less than fifteen years service in the Colony, if he be Indian subordinate officer of the Prison Department; or

stitution for paragraph (c) and not addition of an paragraph

(ii) by the insertion of the following paragraph, number- ed (cc), immediately after the above paragraph (c):-

(cc) on or after attaining the age of fifty years, with not less than fifteen years service in the Colony, if, being a woman, she be a lady medical officer, lady serving in the Education Department, European attendant at a Government mental hospital, or nurse (other than a European matron or European nursing sister referred to in paragraph (d) of this section) in a Government hospital; or

Objects and Reasons.

1. The purpose of this amending Ordinance is to allow Indian subordinate officers of the Prison Department who have not less than 15 years service to retire on pension at the age of forty five.

2. Under the existing law the ordinary retiring age for such officers is fifty, but it is considered that in this respect their conditions of service should be assimilated to those of Indian police officers who are allowed to retire at forty five.

3. The new Ordinance accordingly repeals paragraph (c) of section 8 of the principal Ordinance, in which Indian subordinate officers of the Prison Department were grouped with lady medical officers, ladies serving in the Education Department, European attendants at Government mental hospitals and nurses, other than European matrons or European nursing sisters referred to in paragraph (d), and substitutes two new paragraphs, (c) relating to Indian sub- ordinate officers of the Prison Department, and (cc) relating to the others grouped with them in the repealed paragraph. In the new paragraph (cc) the words "being a woman, she" have been substituted for "he" to make it clear that the paragraph does not refer to male attendants or male nurses.

C. G. ALABASTER,

Attorney General.

(cc).

May, 1935.