THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 18TH JANUARY, 1890.
(3.) The marriage of any such child if a female.
(4.) Divorce from his wife.
(5.) The death of his wife or of any of his children
born in wedlock.
Such notice to the directors and such particulars shall be in writing, and shall be supplied to them within thres months of the event to which they refer, if such contributor is in the Colony, or within six months if he is absent from it. The directors may require any contributor to verify such particulars by statutory declaration or in such other manner as the Directors may require.
23. Whenever the directors shall be satisfied that any contributor has failed or neglected, after reasonable noties, to comply with any of the requirements of section 21 or 22, they may impose on such contributor a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars, which shall be deducted from his salary or pension by the Colonial Treasurer or Crown Agents and carried to the credit of the fund.
24. Whenever the directors shall be satisfied that any contributor has wifully supplied any false information under section 22 or 23, they may impose on such contributor a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, which shall be deducted from his salary or pension and carried to credit of the fund as directed in the preceding section.
Pensioners.
25. Except in the cases enumerated in the next section, the widows and orphans of all contributors shall be entitled to pensions from the fund.
26. The following persons shall not be entitled to any pension under this Ordinance.
(1.) The widow of any contributor who dies within one year from the date of his marriage, unless a child be born of such marriage. In case of the death of such child the widow's pension shall cease.
(2.) The widow of any contributor who married after completing his thirty-five years of contribution to the fund, or after the sixty-fifth year of his age, or after his retirement on pension.
(3.) Any child of such marriage.
(4.) Any orphan, whose mother is in receipt of a
pension.
27. The pensions granted to orphans shall cease in the case of males at eighteen years of age, and in the case of females at twenty-one years of age, or on marriage,
28. The pension to which a widow or any orphan is entitled shall be computed in accordance with the tables contained in the Schedule to this Ordinance. Sneh tables shall be subject to revision from time to time as the Governor in Council may deem necessary, and such revised tables shall be published in the Gazette.
29. When orphans have no living mother or step-mother and their ages entitle them to a peusion, such pension shall be computed as follows;-
(1.) If there are three orphans or less entitled to pension, each orphan shall receive one-fourth of the pension to which the wife of the deceased contributor would have been entitled if she had survived him, or which she was receiving at the time of her death.
(2.) If there are more than three such orphans so entitled to pension, ther the pension to which such widow would have been entitled or was re- ceiving shall be divided equally among them, 30. The directors may make such arrangements as they shall think fit for paying any pension to orphans or to a widow with orphan children or step-children into the hands of trustees, guardians, school-masters, or other suitable per- sons, either wholly or in part. The directs may withold payment of any such pension until such arrangements are made to their satisfaction. The receipts of such trustees, guardians, school-masters, or other suitable persons shall be a sufficient discharge to the directors for the amounts which such receipts represent.
31. Any widow who marries again shall forfeit all claim to pension arising from her previous marriage with a con- tributor. If there are children by suci: previous marriage with a contributor, such children shall, if eligible for pen- sions, be treated as orphans within the meaning of section 29.
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Neglect to furnish
pour lire. Zu 21.
Furnishing false parti culars. Ibid. 91.
Pensioners, Ibid. 29.
Exceptions
Ibid. 23.
Ibid. 33.
Cesser of neurion. 2000. 21.
Computation of pensions. Ibid. 25.
Motherless orphans, Ibid. 20.
Payment of pensious in
trust.
Remarriago
of widow. Ibid. 27.
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