BIRTHS AND DEATHS REGISTRATION (AMENDMENT)
L.S.
HONG KONG
No. 52 OF 1979
I assent.
Ord. No. 52/79
A153
JACK CATER. Acting Governor.
19th July, 1979.
An Ordinance to amend the Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance.
[20th July, 1979]
Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent
of the Legislative Council thereof.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Births and Deaths Registra- Short title. tion (Amendment) Ordinance 1979.
2. Section 13 of the principal Ordinance is amended—
Amendment of section 13.
(a) in subsection (1) by deleting “In” and substituting the following- (Cap. 174.)
"Subject to subsection (3A), in"; and
(b) by inserting after subsection (3) the following subsection-
"(3A) No alteration or addition to the name or names of a child, in any register book of births, shall be made under this section after the child has attained the age of 11 years.".
Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 18th day of July, 1979.
STEPHEN S. P. TAM, Clerk to the Legislative Council.
This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the bill, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said bill.
STEPHEN S. P. TAM,
Clerk to the Legislative Council.