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[No. 24-14.6.39.-3.]

C.S.O. 6/3241/35′′.

A BILL

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend the Pensions Ordinance, 1932.

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Pensions Amend- Short title. ment Ordinance, 1939.

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for Ordin- ance No. 21

2. Section 2 of the Pensions Ordinance, 1932, is Substitution amended in the definition of "Pensionable emoluments paragraph (c) thereof, by the repeal of sub-paragraph (i) and by the substitution of the following sub-paragraph therefor:

(i) in respect of service in this Colony the salary attached to the pensionable office together with personal allowance and house allowance, but does not include duty allowance or any other emoluments whatever.

3. Section 2 of the Pensions Ordinance, 1932, is further amended by the insertion of the following new paragraphs after the end of paragraph (c) thereof:-

of 1932, s. 2 (c) (i).

New para- graphs (cc) and (ccc) added to Ordinance

(cc) "Personal allowance means a special addition to No. 21 of salary granted personally to the holder for the time being 1932, s. 2. of an office, but does not include such addition if it is granted subject to the condition that it shall not be pensionable.

(ccc) "House allowance" means a sum to be added to the salary of an officer who retires from a pensionable office in this Colony, the emoluments of which include either free quarters or the privilege of occupying quarters at a rent not greater than seven per cent. of his salary, or an allowance in lieu such addition shall be, in the case of--

(i) a dollar salary-$2,000, or a sum equal to one-sixth of the officer's salary, whichever is the less;

(ii) a sterling salary, if the officer was first appointed to the service of this Colony before 1st April, 1937-£200, or a sum equal to one-sixth of his salary, whichever is the less;

(iii) a sterling salary, if the officer was first appointed to the service of this Colony on or after 1st April, 1937—£150, or a sum equal to one-sixth of his salary, whichever is the less;

(iv) an European matron of, or an European nursing sister in, a Government hospital-£50, or a sum equal to one-sixth of her salary, whichever is the greater :

But no officer liable to pay rent for quarters shall be deemed to draw house allowance if merely by reason of his being required to occupy certain quarters such rent is reduced to 7 per cent. of his salary or less.