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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
No. S. 454.-The following Bills were read a first time at a meeting of the Council held on the 6th November, 1930:-
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[No. 23:-21.10.30.—1.]
A BILL
INTITULED
Short title.
Repeal of Ordinance No. 11 of 1900, s. 17, and substitution of new section.
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 Amendment Ordinance, 1930.
2. Section 17 of the Police Force Ordinance, 1900, is repealed and the following section is substituted therefor :-
Provisions as to pensions for members of Forces.
17.-(1) It shall be lawful for the Go- vernor in Council to make regulations for the granting of pensions to members of the 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 grauting 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,
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