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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 5, 1939.

No. 1151.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

The following Order of His Majesty in Council is published for general information.

8th December, 1939.

N. L. SMITH,

Colonial Secretary.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS

1939 No. 1252

PENSION

War Pensions and Detention Allowances (Mercantile Marine, Etc.) Scheme.

THE WAR PENSIONS AND DETENTION ALLOWANCES (MERCANTILE MARINE, ETC.) SCHEME, 1939, DATED SEPTEMBER 22ND, 1939, MADE BY THE MINISTER OF PENSIONS UNDER SECTIONS 3 AND 4 OF THE PENSIONS (NAVY, ARMY, AIR FORCE AND MERCANTILE MARINE) ACT, 1939 (2 & 3 GEO. 6, c. 83).

Interpreta- tion of Part 1.

57 & 58 Vict. c. 60.

PART I.

APPLICATION OF NAVAL ORDER TO MARINERS AND MEMBERS OF THE PILOTAGE OR LIGHT VESSEL SERVICES.

1.--(1) In this Part of this Scheme, and in the First, Second and Third Schedules to this Scheme, the following expressions shall, except where the context otherwise requires, have the meanings hereby assigned to them respectively, that is to say-

"the Act" means the Pensions (Navy, Army, Air Force and Mercantile Marine) Act, 1939;

"British ship" has the same meaning as in the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, except that it includes any ship (not being a ship forming part of His Majesty's Navy, an Admiralty Yard Craft or a vessel belonging to the War Department) within the meaning of that Act which belongs to His Majesty or is held by any person on behalf of or for the benefit of the Crown and that it does not include a ship registered in--

(a) any Dominion within the meaning of the Statute of Westminster, 1931, other than New Zealand and Newfound- land, or

(b) India er Burma:

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detention means-——

(i) in relation to a mariner, the detention, as defined by section 10 of the Act, of that mariner which is, or is for the purposes of the Act to be deemed to be, caused by reason of his service in a British ship, and