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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 21, 1914.

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"provided that in any case in which the person is brought before a Magistrate on any such charge the Magistrate may, if he "thinks fit, deal summarily with the case and "sentence such person to imprisonment for

any term not exceeding one year".

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Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 20th day of August, 1914.

M. J. BREEN,

Clerk of Councils.

Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 21st

day of Angust, 1914.

CLAUD SEVERN,

Colonial Secretary.

HONGKONG.

No. 21 OF 1914.

An Ordinance to amend the Widows' and

Orphans' Pension Ordinance, 1908.

I assent to this Ordinance.

LS

F. H. MAY,

Governor.

[21st August, 1914.]

Short title.

Amendment of section 2

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Widows' and Orphans' Pension (Amendment) Ordinance, 1914, and shall be read and construed as one with the Widows' and Orphans' Pension Ordinance, 1908; (hereinafter called the Principal Ordinance), and this Ordinance and the said Ordinance may be cited together as the Widows' and Orphans' Pension Ordinances, 1908 and 1914.

2. Section 2 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended by deleting the definition of "officer" and by of Ordinance substituting the following definition therefor :-

No. 15 of

1908.

New defini-

tion of

"officer".

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"Officer means :-

(a.) a person permanently employed in the service of the Government; or

(b.) a member of the police force of the rank of sergeant or of higher rank; or

(c.) a married member of the police force below the rank of sergeant whose marriage has received or may hereafter receive either the previons or the subsequent approval of the Captain Superintendent of Police.

Provided that the term "officer" does not include any such person whose salary is less than 240 dollars per annum.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 20th day of August, 1914.

M. J. BREEN,

Clerk of Councils.

Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 21st

day of August, 1914.

CLAUD SEVERN,

Colonial Secretary.

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