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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 4, 1921.

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HONGKONG.

No. 5 or 1921.

I assent to this Ordinance.

R. E. STUBBS,

Governor.

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4th March, 1921.

An Ordinance to amend the Widows' and

Orphans' Pension Ordinance, 1908.

[4th March, 1921.]

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Widows' and Short title Orphans' Pension Ordinance, 1921, and shall be read and and construed as one with the Widows' and Orphans'

• construction. Pension Ordinance, 1908, hereinafter called the principal Ordinance Ordinance, and the said Ordinance and this Ordinance No. 15 of

1908. may be cited together as the Widows' and Orphans' Pension Ordinances, 1908 and 1921.

2. Section 2 of the principal Ordinance, as amended Amendment by section 2 of the Widows' and Orphans' Pension of Ordinance (Amendment) Ordinance, 1914, is further amended by No. 15 of the deletion of the definition of the term

officer" and 1908, s. 2. by the substitution therefor of the following defini- tion:

“Officer" means :-----

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New definition of "officer ".

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Ordinance No. 21 of

(a) a person permanently employed in the 1914.

service of the Government; or

(b) an European member of the police force of the rank of sergeant or of higher rank; or

(e) a married European member of the police force below the rank of sergeant whose marriage has received or may hereafter receive either the previous or the sub- sequent approval of the Captain Super- intendent of Police:

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Provided that the term "officer does not in- clude any such person whose salary is less than

$420 per annum.

3.- (1.) Every person contributing to the Fund at Existing the date of the commencement of this Ordinance who contributors falls outside the definition of the term "officer

con-

who fall outside the

tained in section 2 of this Ordinance may either continue new to contribute to the Fund or may withdraw from the definition of Fund and receive therefrom one-half of the total amount officer. of the contributions made by him, without interest.

(2.) If any person to whom this section applies fails to give due notice to the Directors of his desire to con- tinue to contribute to the Fund such person shall be deemed to have elected to withdraw from the Fund.

(3.) For the purpose of sub-section (2) of this section due notice shall mean notice which shall reach the Directors ----

(a) within one month after return from leave in the case of persons who are on leave at the commencement of this Ordinance; and