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WIDOWS' AND ORPHANS' PENSIONS. [ 30 OF 1890. ] 1329



No. 30 OF 1890 .

An Ordinance to provide for and regulate aa Pension
Fund for widows and children of Public Officers of
the Colony .
[ 22nd December, 1890.]*


1. This ordinance may be cited as The Widows' and Orphans' short title..
Pensions Ordinance, 1890.
2. For the purposes of this orlinance, the following expres. Interpreta
tion .
sions shall have and include the meanings respectively set
against them , wherever the same are not repugnant to the
context .

Contributor. – Any public officer as hereinafter defined
whose salary is liable to abatement under this ordi
nance or who may be admitted by the directors of
the fund to contribute to it .
Directors.-- The directors of the fund , to be appointed under
this ordinance.
Orphan. — Any child born to any deceased contributor by
his wife after marriage.
Pension.- Any pension granted under this ordinance,
except where the context shall imply that the pension
of the contributor himself is referred to .
Pensioner.-- Any person entitled to a pension under this
ordinance.
Public Ojjicer. - Any officer of the Colonial Civil Service in Ceylon Ord.of
the Colony who is in receipt of a yearly salary of not No 188 2.
less than two hundred and forty dollars or of a pension
calculated thereon and whose engagement of service
is not terminable at any fixed or definite period .
Salary.— The total emoluments of whatever nature of any
contributor payable out of the Colonial Treasury.
The Fund . - All inoneys raised under this ordinance,
whether by contributions, fines, interest, loan, or
otherwise.
Wife. — The lawful wife of any public officer of the Christian
or Jewish religion or in the case of Chinese the Kit
Fat or in the case of any other Asiatic nation the first
wife .
Widow.— The widow of any contributor.