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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

No. S. 87.-The following Bills were read a first time at a meeting of the Council held on the 29th March, 1928 :-

C.S.O. 3322/27.

[No. 6--3.2 28.—1.]

A BILL

INTITULED

Short title.

Insertion of new section 3A in Ordinance No. 2 of 1862.

Saving.

An Ordinance to amend the Pensions Ordi-

nance, 1862.

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 Amendment Ordinance, 1928.

2. The following section is inserted in the Pensions Ordinance, 1862, immediately after section 3 thereof :-

Judges and

3A. Every judge and every other public other officers officer, whenever appointed, shall retire from the service upon attaining the age of sixty years unless the Governor in Council decides that his services shall be retained.

to retire at 60.

3. Nothing contained in section 2 of this Ordinance shall be construed as requiring the compulsory retire- ment at the age of sixty years of any judge or other public officer who had attained that age before the commencement of this Ordinance.

Objects and Reasons.

The object of this Ordinance is to require the com- pulsory retirement at the age of sixty years of every judge or other public officer who attains that age after the commencement of this Ordinance, unless the Governor in Council decides that his services shall be retained. This is the rule in Ceylon.

16th August, 1927.

J. H. KEMP,

Attorney General.

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C.S.O. 1308/18.

A BILL