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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

No. 8. 377.-The following Bills were read a first time at a meeting of the Council held on the 16th December, 1936 :-

Short title.

Substitution for Ordin- ance No. 21 of 1932, s. 8 (b).

Amendment

of Ordinance No. 21 of

1932, s. 10.

[No. 40-30.11.36.-1.]

A BILL

INTITULED

An Ordinance further to amend the law relating to Pensions.

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 (No. 4) Amendment Ordinance, 1936.

2. Paragraph (b) of section 8 of the Pensions Ordinance, 1932, is repealed and the following paragraph is substituted therefor

(b) in special cases with the approval of the Secretary of State on or after attaining the age of fifty years; or

3. Section 10 of the Pensions Ordinance, 1932, is amended by the addition of the following sub-section at the end thereof :-

(3) The Governor in Council may, in special cases and with the approval of the Secretary of State, also require any officer to retire from the public service of the Colony at any time after he or she has attained the age of fifty years.

Objects and Reasons.

1. The object of this Bill is to give effect to the recom- mendations in the Secretary of State's Circular despatch of the 3rd October, 1936, by providing for compulsory retire- ment in special cases and with the approval of the Secretary of State, after an officer has attained the age of fifty.

2. This object is achieved by adding a sub-section to section 10 of the principal Ordinance, which deals with compulsory retirement, and by substituting for a paragraph in section 8, which permitted retirement on pension, gratuity or other allowance, with the consent of the Governor after attaining the age of fifty, a paragraph permitting such early retirement only in special cases with the approval of the Secretary of State.

3. Under section 10 (2) of the principal Ordinance the normal age of retirement, except in a few specified cases, is fifty five.

C. G. ALABASTER,

Attorney General.

November, 1936.