Short title.
A BILL
ANNEX C TO XCR(79)141
To
Amend the Matrimonial Proceedings and Property Ordinance.
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 Matrimonial Proceedings and Property (Amendment) Ordinance 1979.
Addition of new section 29A.
(Cap. 192.)
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The principal Ordinance is amended in Part III
by adding before section 30 the following section
"Power of
court hearing petition to terminate subsisting maintenance order made by another court. 1960 c.48, s.7(3).
29A. (1) If, at the time of the
presentation of a petition for divorce,
nullity of marriage or judicial separation,
there is subsisting an order, made by a
court in previous proceedings between the
same persons as are parties to the petition,
requiring financial provision to be made
for the maintenance by one of the parties
of the other, or for the maintenance by
either or both of the parties of a child of the family, the court hearing the
petition may, if it thinks fit, direct
that the said order shall cease to have
effect on such date as may be specified
in the direction.