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(3) Any claim for exemption under this section must be in writing and must reach the Colonial Secretary within three months after the officer commences to draw salary from this Government.

(4) An officer who under this section has claimed exemption from becoming a contributor under this Ordinance may not subsequently become a contributor under this Ordinance unless either he ceases to contribute to the approved scheme, or he narries, or he leaves the service of this Government and is subsequently re-ap- pointed to it.

(5) Nothing in this section shall exempt an officer, who on appointment or re-ap- pointment to the service of this Govern- ment is already a contributor under the scheme, from continuing his contributions thereto.

(6) If an officer obtains exemption under this section, any contributions pre- viously made by him under this Ordinance shall be returned to him without interest.

5. Notwithstanding anything contained in section Temporary 4 of this Ordinance, a claim to exemption under provisions. section 3A of the Widows' and Orphans' Pension Ordinance, 1908, as enacted by this Ordinance, by Ordinance any officer who at the commencement of this Ordi- No. 15 of nance is liable to contribute nuder the Widows' and 1908. Orphans' Pension Ordinance, 1908, may be made within three months after the commencement of this Ordinance, or, if such officer is on leave at the com- mencement of this Ordinance, within three months after his return from leave.

Objects and Reasons.

1. Section 2 of this Ordinance will correct an obvious mistake in section 3 (1) (c) of the Widows' and Orphans' Pension Ordinance, 1908, Ordinance No. 15 of 1908. The Widows' and Orphans' Pension Scheme applies, generally speaking only to permanent officers, but in 1921 it was extended to persons appointed on an agreement for periods exceeding two years. Section 3 (1) (c) of the principal Ordinance in its present obviously incorrect form would make the Scheme apply to officers on agreement for periods not exceeding two years, while excluding officers on agreement for periods exceeding two years. mistake must have occurred in the printing of the pre- This sent revised edition, because the section appears correctly in the Law Revision Ordinance, 1924, Ordi- nance No. 5 of 1924, s. 36.

2. Section 3 makes this amendment retrospective, so as to date back to the time when the present revised edition of the Ordinances became the statute book for all purposes, because everyone has all along acted as if the word "not" did not occur in the paragraph in question. The proclamation referred to is the procla- mation which brought the new revised edition into effect.