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A BILL

[No. 23-21.10.30.-1.]

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend the Police Force Ordi-

nance, 1900.

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 Police Force Short title. Amendment Ordinance, 1930.

2. Section 17 of the Police Force Ordinance, 1900, Repeal of is repealed and the following section is substituted Ordinance therefor :-

Provisions as to pensions for members of Forces.

No. 11 of 1900, 8. 17, and

17.-(1) It shall be lawful for the Go- substitution vernor in Council to make regulations for of new the granting of pensions to members of the section. Force, or in respect of service in the Force, and to determine in special cases, where the regulations appear to the Governor in Council to be inapplicable or to require modification, the amount (if any) of the pension, the terms on which it shall be granted and the manner in which it shall be paid.

(2) Pensions granted under this Ordi- nance shall be paid out of the general revenue of the Colony.

Objects and Reasons.

Under section 17 of the Police Force Ordinance, 1900, the Governor in Council not only regulates the general conditions on which and the manner in which pensions are to be granted to members of the Force, but deter- mines the question of granting a pension and the amount thereof in each particular case. There does not seem to be any sufficient reason why members of the Police Force should be thus singled out from other pensionable public servants, or why the Governor in Council should have to deal with each case of retirement especially where the pension is a mere matter of calculation.

October, 1930.

C. G. ALABASTER,

Attorney General.