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3. Section 4 inserts in the principal Ordinance a section dealing with the case of persons transferred to Hong Kong who are already contributing to a widows' and orphans' pension scheme in some other Colony. The new section provides that such an officer need not contribute to the Hong Kong scheme. It gives him three months to claim exemption, the three months dating from the time when he commences to draw salary from this Government. The section applies only where the scheme to which the officer is already contributing is approved by the Secretary of State. The new section also provides that if an officer obtains exemption, any contributions previously made by him under the principal Ordinance shall be returned to him without interest. Some contributions might have been deducted while the officer's claim was being dealt with. The reference in sub-section 6 of the new section is to the obtaining of exemption because a claim would fail if the scheme in the other Colony were not one approved by the Secretary of State. The new section is made to apply in the case of schemes in colonies, protectorates, mandated territories, and British India.

4. Section 5 of this Ordinance is a temporary pro- vision dealing with the case of officers who at present are liable to contribute under the principal Ordinance, but who will be entitled to claim exemption when this

· Ordinance becomes law. Such officers are given three months after the commencement of the Ordinance in which to claim exemption. Any such officers on leave at the commencement of this Ordinance will have three months after return from leave to claim exemption.

5th June, 1929.

J. H. KEMP,

Attorney General.