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TABLE OF CORRESPONDENCE.
Straits
Settle-
ments
New Hong Kong
Ordinance
Ordinance
Remarks.
No. 123
Section.
Section.
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1
Short title.
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2
3
4 (1)
4 (1)
4 (2)
4 (2)
4 (8)
4 (3)
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5
7
7
"in the opinion of the "Court" added in definition of Minor children. Compare Ordinance No. 1 of 1932, s. 2, and distinction between Asiatics and others omitted and 21 taken as age of termina- tion of minority of unmarried children. Definitions of Court of Appeal and Incestuous Adultery and Bigamy with adultery and Marriage with another woman omitted. Definition of Christian Marriage or its civil equivalent added See Nachimson's case 1930, P. 217; Brinkley's case 15 P.D. 76; Hyde's case 1 P. & M. 130; Bethell's case 38 Ch. D. 220.
"for the time being" added after "Eng-
land".
paragraph (a) substituted for the paragraph of the S.S. Ordinance which required that the petitioner should profess the Christian religion.
redrafted. Necessity for local celebration in nullity cases retained but paragraph requiring petitioner's profession Christian religion omitted.
of
redrafted. Also "were" substituted for
"reside" in penultimate line.
"A" substituted for "any" in sub-sections (1) and (2) owing to provisions of section 4 (1). Paragraphs (a) and (b) (ii), (iii), (v) and (vi) in S.S. Ordinance omitted. "incestuous" deleted.
6
In sections 7, 8 and 9 "going through the said form of marriage or the" deleted.
"not" transposed in paragraph (a).
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10
10
11
11
12
12
13
13
14
14
16
en
16
16
"A" substituted for "Any" owing to pro-
visions of section 4 (2).
"Colony" substituted for "place in which
it was celebrated", see section 4 (2).