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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
Draft Bill.
No. S. 222.-The following bill, which it is proposed to introduce into the Legislative Council shortly, is published for general information.
C.S.O. 3174/18;
[No. 12-3.9.26.-1.,
A BILL
Short title.
Amendment
INTITULED
An Ordinance to enable the Governor to appoint such person as he may please to be Registrar of Marriages.
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Marriage Amendment Ordinance, 1926.
2. Section 2 of the Marriage Ordinance, 1875, is No. 7 of 1875, repealed and the following section is substituted there-
of Ordinance
s. 2.
Continuation in office of existing Registrar of Marriages
for:
Regi trar 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. heen 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 of the Marriage Ordinance, 1875, as amended by section 2 of this Ordinance, to be Registrar of Marriages the Secretary for Chinese Affairs shall continue to be Registrar of Marriages, and until some person is appointed under the said section to be a Deputy Regis- trar of Marriages all the persons who are Deputy Regis- No. 7 of 1875. trars of Marriages at the commencement of this Ordinance
shall continue to be Deputy Registrars of Marriages.
and Deputy Registrars of Marriages. Ordinance
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