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Widows and Orphans Pension.
[1967 Ed.

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Regulations prescribing persons to whom term "officer" applies.
Contributors to other schemes.

(i) the salary of an officer's substantive appointment or appointments; and
(ii) expatriation pay and personal allowances in place of expatriation pay, if any; and

(b) in the case of an officer who has elected, the aggregate of— (i) ninety per cent of the salary of an officer's substantive appointment or appointments; and

(5)
(ii) fifty per cent of expatriation pay and personal allowances in place of expatriation pay, if any. (Added, 6 of 1967, s. 3)

Chief Secretary

3. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations to prescribe the persons to whom the term "officer" in this Ordinance shall apply and to make any such regulation with retrospective effect to any date not being a date earlier than the 1st day of January 1947:

Provided that no such regulation shall take effect unless it has received the prior approval of the Legislative Council signified by resolution.
(Replaced, 4 of 1948, s. 2)

4. (1) No officer shall be required to contribute under this Ordinance if, and for so long as, he is contributing to an approved scheme, or if he has completed his contributions to an approved scheme: (Amended, 2 of 1931, s. 3)

Provided that this subsection shall have no effect and shall be deemed never to have had effect in relation to an approved scheme which has been declared by the Secretary of State to be a List II scheme. (Added, 72 of 1967, s. 3)

(2) For the purposes of this section, an approved scheme means a scheme for the granting of pensions to the widows and children of Government officers, established in a British colony or protectorate or in British India or in any territory in respect of which a mandate is being exercised by the government of any part of Her Majesty's dominions, which is declared by the Secretary of State to be an approved scheme for the purposes of this section.

(3) Any claim for exemption under this section must be in writing and must reach the Colonial Secretary within three months after the officer commences to draw salary from this Government or such extended period as the Governor in Council may in any particular case allow. (Amended, 33 of 1939, Schedule)

(4) An officer who under this section has obtained exemption from becoming a contributor under this Ordinance may not subsequently become a contributor under this Ordinance unless-

* Effective from 1st April 1965.