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Short title.

Amendment

of section 2 of Ordinance

No. 15 of

1908.

New defini-

tion of

"officer".

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A BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance to amend the Widows' and

Orphans' Pension Ordinance, 1908.

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 substituting the following definition therefor :-

"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 previous 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.

Objects and Reasons,

The object of this Bill is to provide that the class of contributors to the Widows' and Orphans' Pension Fand shall be extended so as to include all married members of the police force below the rank of sergeant whose marriages have received, or may hereafter receive, either the previous or the subsequent approval of the Captain Superintendent of Police. Under the present law only those members of the police force who are of the rank of sergeant or of higher rank are included in the class of contributors. All the existing members of the police force to whom this Ordinance will apply wish to join the Fund.

A BILL

J. H. KEMI,

Attorney General.

Short title.

ENTITLED

An Ordinance to amend the law relating to the

observance of precautions against Piracy.

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 Piracy Preveu- tion Ordinance, 1914.

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