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 STATUTORY RULES AND ORDER.

 1955, No. 19. -

 PENSIONS (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS.

 (Gazetted 7th June, 1955).

 1. Short title. These Regulations may be cited as the Pensicns (Amend-
 ment) Regulations, 1955, and shall be read as one with the Pensions Regulations
 1948, contained in the First Schedule to the Pensions Ordinance, 1948, (No. 16 of
 1948) hereinafter referred to as the principal Regulations) and all amendments
 thereto.

 2. Regulation 23 of principal Regulations revoked and
 replaced. Regulation 23 of the principal Regulations is hereby revoked and
 replaced as follows:-

 "Officers 23. (1) This Regulation shall apply to an officer who while
 injured or in the service of the Colony either:
 contracting (a) is permanently injured in the actual discharge of his
 diseases in duty by some injury specifically, attributable to the
 the discharge nature of his duty which is not wholly or mainly due
 of their to, or seriously aggravated by, his own serious and
 duties. culpable negligence or misconduct, or
 (b) contracts a disease to which he'is specifically exposed
 by the nature of his duty, not being a disease wholly
 or mainly due to, or seriously aggravated by,' his own
 serious and culpable negligence or misconduct.
 (2) In this Regulation, unless the contrary intention ap-
 pears, references to an officer being injured and to the date on
 which an injury is sustained shall respectively be construed
 as including references to him contracting such a disease as is
 mentioned in paragraph (1) of this Regulation and to the date
 on which such disease is. contracted.
 (3) Where an officer to whom this Regulation applies is,
 holding a pensionable office in which he has been confirmed:
 (a) he may, if his retirement is necessitated or materially
 accelerated by his injury tand.. he has been in the pub-
 lic service for less than ten years, be granted, in lieu
 of any gratuity under Regulation 5 or Regulation 12
 of these" Regulations, a pension under Regulation 4,
 Sq 1 9, 10 or 11, as the case may be, as if the words "for
 S V Iten years or more" were omitted from the said Regu-
 Slation 4;

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