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6. This Ordinance shall come into operation on the 1st day of January, 1988, and shall continue in force until the ance to apply 31st day of December, 1938, and no longer, unless otherwise provided by Ordinance.

for the year 1938 only unless otherwise provided by Ordinance.

7. The Hong Kong Government Service (Levy on Repeal of Salaries) Ordinance, 1937, is repealed.

Ürdinance No. 2 of 1937.

Objects and Reasons.

1. The object of this Bill is to make provision in the year 1938 for the payment in this Colony of the sterling salaries of public officers in the Hong Kong Government service at a rate similar to the rate at which such salaries were paid in 1937.

2. Clause 3 of this Bill in which the rate is fixed at 1/3 to the dollar, is based upon section 2 (5) of the Hong Kong Government Service (Levy on Salaries) Ordinance, 1937, Ordinance No. 2 of 1937, which expires on 31st December, 1937, and is repealed by clause 7.

3. Clause 2 of this Bill defines the expressions "Treasury rate" and "Widows' and Orphans' Pension Contribution" and clauses 4 and 5 reproduce the provisions of sections 6 (1) and 7 of Ordinance No. 2 of 1937, respectively empowering the Legislative Council to grant exemptions by resolution and saving the rights of the Crown.

4. The provisions introduced by this Bill are by clause 6 thereof to have effect from 1st January, 1938 to 31st December, 1938, unless otherwise provided by Ordinance.

November, 1937.

C. G. ALABASTER,

Attorney General.