Hong Kong Ordinances

PENSION BENEFITS (JUDICIAL OFFICERS) ORDINANCE - SECT 37

Chief Executive's power to exempt or modify

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 26 of 1999 s. 3

(1) The Chief Executive may exempt an officer and his dependants from the
application of any provision of this Ordinance and the  regulations in any
particular case, or may modify the application of any provision in any such
case in the manner specified by him, where in his opinion inequity results
from the application of the provision; but an exemption or modification shall
not be detrimental to the officer or his dependants and shall be in keeping
with the spirit of this Ordinance. (Amended 26 of 1999 s. 3)

(2) No exemption or modification shall be made under subsection (1) unless a
draft of it has been laid before and approved by resolution of the Legislative
Council, and section 34 of the Interpretation and General  Clauses Ordinance (
Cap 1) does not apply in relation to the exemption or modification. (Enacted
1988)