Section 3: Provision for future extension of pension rights under repealed

Ordinance. CHAPTER 291. PENSIONS (OLD CONDITIONS OF SERVICE) (EXTENSION OF RIGHTS). An Ordinance to Amend the Pensions Ordinance by the 41 of 1959. Insertion of a Provision Declaring the Pension Rights of Public Officers to whom the Conditions of Service in Force Prior to the Commencement of the Pensions Ordinance Cap. 173. Apply, and to Provide for the Extension of such Rights. [31ST DECEMBER, 1959.] 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Pensions (Old Con- Short title. ditions of Service) (Extension of Rights) Ordinance. Extension of pension rights of certain public officers. Cap. 173. 2. Where by reason of the provisions of section 18 of the Pensions Ordinance, a public officer is excluded from the application of that Ordinance and in consequence his rights under the provisions of the Pensions (European Officers) Ordinance are preserved, the Rules contained in the First Schedule to the Pensions (European Officers) Ordinance prior to its repeal shall be construed as if- * (a) for the word "ten" where it occurs in Rules 20, 30 t and 31, there were substituted, with effect from the thirteenth day of August, 1954, the words" twelve and a half"; *The Pensions (European Officers) Ordinance was Chapter 164 of the 1946 Edition of the Laws. t These Rules are at page 1858 and 1862 of Vol II of the 1946 Edition. * Provision for future extension of pension rights under repealed Ordinance. Cap. 164 and Cap. 166 of the 1946 Edition of the Laws. Cap. 291] Pensions (Old Condit'l~ons etc.) (Extension etc.) (b) there were included in the Schedule to those Rules all such additional territories or authorities as are for the time being included in the Schedule to the Pensions Rules, with effect in each case from the date when such territory or authority was, or hereafter shall be included in the Schedule to the Pensions Rules. 3. Where after the commencement of this Ordinance the Pensions Rules are amended, the Governor may by Order provide that the Rules in the First Schedule to the Pensions (European Officers) Ordinance and in the Schedule to the Pensions (Non-European Officers) Ordinance, or either of them, shall, in so far as they continue to have effect, be construed as if an amendment to effect a corresponding alteration therein were included, in such terms as may be specified in the Order, in such Rules or in either of them, as the case may be; and an amendment effected by any such Order may, for the purpose of conferring a benefit upon or removing a disability attaching to any person, be given retrospective effect to any date and not earlier than the date of commencement of the corresponding amendment to the Pensions Rules. *The Schedule to the Pensions Rules is printed with the Rules in the Volume containing the subsidiary legislation of Cap. 173.