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Short title.

Amendment of Ordin-

ance No. 21 of 1932,

s. 8 as amended by Ordinance No. 29 of 1935, s. 2.

Amendment of Ordin- ance No. 21

of 1932, s.17

as amended by Ordin-

ance No. 12

of 1934,

s. 5.

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A BILL

No. 42-18.12.35.-3.]

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend further 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, 1936.

2. Section 8 of the Pensions Ordinance, 1932, (as amended by section 2 of the Pensions Amendment Ordinance, 1935), is further amended by the substitution of the words "Except as provided in section 17, no" for the word "No" at the commencement thereof.

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3. Section 17 of the Pensions Ordinance, 1932, (as amended by section 5 of the Pensions Amendment Ordinance, 1934), is further amended by the insertion of the words ", on production within six months after her resignation or retire- ment, or such longer period as the Governor may in any particular case allow, of satisfactory evidence of her marriage," after the word "granted" in the sixth line thereof.

Objects and Reasons.

The object of this Ordinance, which was suggested by the Secretary of State in his despatches of the 13th September and the 26th October, 1935, is to remove an apparent conflict between sections 8 and 17 of the principal Ordinance and to ensure that the payment of gratuities made to female officers retiring on account of marriage shall be subject to the production of evidence that the marriage has in fact taken. place.

December, 1935.

C. G. ALABASTER,

Attorney General.