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3. Salaries paid locally have, however, continued to be paid at the rates provided by section 3 notwithstanding the absence of an amending Ordinance extending the period of operation of that section.

4. The objects of this Bill are firstly to validate the rates paid since the first of January, 1939, and secondly to fix for an indefinite period the rates provided by section 3 of the 1937 Ordinance, but to withdraw from officers proceeding on leave in the future the special concession given by the existing proviso to that section. A new proviso is substituted con- tinuing the concession till the end of their leave of officers at present on leave who have availed themselves of it.

C. G. ALABASTER,

Attorney General.

May, 1939.

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