Your Roft 3632/314 Our Reft HKK 18/11
Foreign and Commonwealth Office,
Downing Street West,
8. w.1.
9th October, 1969
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Hong Kong Divorce Jurisdiction Rules
Please refer to your letter to me of the 2nd October and my interim reply
of the 6th October.
2. May I deal first with the reasons why the Hong Kong Government wish the new non-domiciled Rules to be made now? They are stated in saving despatoh No. 209 of 9th February 1968 from the Governor to the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs, a copy of which I enclose. Paragraph 2 of the despatch deals with the question of revoking the present Rules subject to certain exceptions; and also with the addition of a further Rule which was agreed by the Commonwealth Affairs Office and is the subject of clause 13 of the draft Rules road with section 10 of the Matrimonial Causes Ordinance 1967 of Hong Kong (cap. 179).
3. Regarding the general points which you have raised (apart from the actual draft), wo are glad to have your commentary on the problems which would arise if the new Rules are made now and have put them to the Hong Kong Government authorities, with the suggestion that their making should be delayed.
a copy of our saving despatch No. 465 of 8th October to the Governor.
I enclos
40 Reverting to the draft Rules, I did not include a footnote to Rule 14 because there is already in articlo 3 (3) a reference to the Hong Kong (Non- Domiciled Parties) Divorce Rules 1936,
5. We shall get in touch with you again when we hear from Hong Kong.
J. W. Bourne, Esq.,
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Lord Chancellor's Office,
House of Lords,
S. 7. 1.
(I. H. Crushley)