605109-1940-Supplementary-Bill-read-a-first-time---Pensions-War-Service-Ord--1940 — Page 1

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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

No. 8. 441.-The following Bill was read a first time at a meeting of the Council held on the 12th September, 1940: -

Short title.

Ordinances No. 21 of

1932,

No. 12 of

1934,

No. 29 of

1935,

No. 3 of

1936,

No. 3 of

1937,

No. 28 of 1939.

[No. 15:—22.8.40.-1.]

A BILL

INTITULED

An Ordinance to regulate the pension rights of officers in the public service released for service with His Majesty's Forces in time of war.

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 (War Service) Ordinance, 1940, and shall be construed as one with the Pensions Ordinance, 1932, (as amended by the Pensions Amendment Ordinances. 1934, 1935, 1986, 1937 and 1939), hereinafter called the principal Ordinance.

War Service to count for pension purposes.

2. Where an officer shall have served with His Majesty's Forces in time of war, with the approval of the Governor of the territory in the service of which he was last employed before so serving or of the Secretary of State, the following provisions shall have effect:-

(1) During the period of such service in His Majesty's Forces, including any period after the termination of the war (in this section referred to as "military service"), he shall be deemed, for the purposes of the principal Ordinance. and the Pensions regulations thereunder, to have been on leave on full salary from the public service in which he was last employed, and to have held the substantive office last held by him in that service, prior to military service.

(2) During any period between his leaving the public service for the purpose of serving in His Majesty's Forces and the date of his commencing military service, he shall, for the purposes of the principal Ordinance and of the said Regulations, be deemed to be on leave without pay, not granted on grounds of public policy, from the public service in which he was last employed, and to have held the substantive office last held by him in that service, prior to military service; and during any period between the termination of his military service and the date of his re- entering the public service he shall, for the said purposes. be deemed to be on leave as aforesaid from the service, and to have held the substantive office, in which he is re- employed: Provided that--