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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 30, 1917.

HONGKONG.

LS

No. 29 or 1917.

I assent to this Ordinance.

CLAUD SEVERN,

Officer Administering the Government.

30th November, 1917.

An Ordinance to amend the Pension Ordi-

nance, 1862.

[30th November, 1917.]

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 Pension Short title Amendment Ordinance, 1917, and shall be read and and con- construed as one with the Pension Ordinance, 1862, struction. hereinafter called the principal Ordinance, and this Ordinance Ordinance and the said Ordinance may be cited to- gether as the Peusion Ordinances, 1862 and 1917.

No. 2 of 1862.

2. Section 3 of the principal Ordinance is repealed Repeal of and the following section is substituted therefor :—

Retirement of judge or other officer

on attaining

55 years, or in case of inability to discharge

his duties.

Ordinance No. 2 of

and sub-

3. Subject to the approval of the Secre- 1862, s. 3, tary of State as regards officers appointed stitution under instructions from or through the of new Secretary of State, the Governor in Council section. may :-

(a) require any judge or other public

officer to retire from the service at any time after he attains the age of fifty-five years ; or

(6) require any judge or other public officer to retire from the service at any time if, in the opinion of Governor in Council, such judge or other public officer is unable from any cause to discharge effici- ently the duties of his office.

nance.

3. This Ordinance shall apply to every judge and to Application every other public officer, whether such judge or other of Ordi- public officer was appointed before the commencement of this Ordinance or shall be appointed hereafter, and notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the Interpretation Ordinance, 1911, or in any other Ordinance law or Ordinance whatsoever.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 29th

No. 31 of 1911.

day of November, 1917.

E. BULLOCK,

Clerk of Councils.

Assented to by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, the 30th day of November, 1917.

A. G. M. FLETCHER, Colonial Secretary.

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