THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 15, 1926.
HONG KONG.
No. 14 or 1926.
L.S.
1 assent.
C. CLEMENTI, Governor.
15th October, 1926.
An Ordinance to enable the Governor to appoint such person as he may please to be Registrar of Marriages.
[15th October, 1926.]
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Marriage Short title, Amendment Ordinance, 1926.
2. Section 2 of the Marriage Ordinance, 1875, is Amendment repealed and the following section is substituted there- of Ordinance
No. 7 of 1875, for :-
s. 2.
Registrar of Marriages and Deputy Registrars.
2.-(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor from time to time to appoint such person as he may please to be Registrar of Marriages, and to appoint Deputy Registrars of Marri- ages.
(2) It shall not be necessary in any such appointment to name any particular indivi- dual and the appointment may be of the holder of an office in the name of the office, in which case the person for the time being performing the duties of such office shall be deemed to have been appointed to be Regis- trar of Marriages or a Deputy Registrar of Marriages, as the case may be, and all the powers and duties expressed by this or any other Ordinance to be conferred or imposed on the Registrar of Marriages or on a Deputy Registrar of Marriages, as the case may be, shall from time to time be deemed to have been conferred or imposed on the person for the time being performing the duties of such office.
(3) All acts done by any Deputy Regis- trar of Marriages shall be as valid as if done by the Registrar of Marriages.
3. Until some person is appointed under section 2 Continuation of the Marriage Ordinance, 1875, as amended by section in office of 2 of this Ordinance, to be Registrar of Marriages, the Registrar of
existing
Secretary for Chinese Affairs shall continue to be Marriages Registrar of Marriages, and, until some person is and Deputy appointed under the said section to be a Deputy Regis Marriages.
Registrars of trar of Marriages, all the persons who are Deputy Regis- Ordinance trars of Marriages at the commencement of this Ordinance No. 7 of 1875. shall continue to be Deputy Registrars of Marriages.
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