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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Draft Bill.

No. S. 513.-The following bill is published for general information:-

CS.O. 3099/25.

[No. 28:-24.11.30.-1]

A BILL

INTITULED

Short title.

Amendment.

of Ordinance

No. 15 of 1908, s. 3 (1).

Amendment

No. 15 of

An Ordinance to amend further the Widows'

and Orphans' Pension Ordinance, 1908.

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 Widows' and Orphans' Pension Amendment Ordinance, 1931.

2.--(1) Paragraph (a) of section 3 (1) of the Widows' and Orphans' Pension Ordinance, 1908, is repealed and the following paragraph is substituted therefor :

(a) every male person permanently employed in the service of the Government, whose salary has suffered abatement under this Ordinance, or who on or after the first day of January, 1930, is in receipt of a salary of not less than four hundred and eighty dollars per annum ;

(2) The following provisions are added at the end of sub-section (1) of section 3 of the Widows' and Orphans' Pension Ordinance, 1908 : —

Provided that Governors, their Private Secretaries and Aides-de-Camp, if not contributors before they held these positions or if they be not hollers of any other substantive appointment entitling them to be contributors, shall not be eligible to be contributors; and provided also that persons who have attained the age of forty-nine years, if not contributors before they attained that age, shall not be eligible to be contributors,

3. Section 3A of the Widows' and Orphans' Pen-

of Ordinance sion Ordinance, 1908, as enacted by section 4 of the Widows' and Orphans Pension Amendment Ordinance, 1929, is amended by the addition after the words "approved scheme" at the end of sub-section (1) thereof of the following words :--

1908, s. ZA.

Ordinance No. 9 of 1929.

Temporary provisions.

:

"; or if he has completed his contributions to an approved sebeme”

4-(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the said section 3A a claim to exemption under that section as amended by this Ordinance may be made within three months after the commencement of this Ordi- mance and if such claim is made any contributions made to the Widows' and Orphans' Pension Scheme of the Colony of Hong Kong shall be refunded.

(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 3 (1) (a♫ of the Widows and Orphans' Pension Ordi- nance, 1908, as amended by this Ordinance, every