THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 26, 1933.
HONG KONG.
No. 9 of 1933.
I assent.
W. PEEL,
L.S.
Governor.
26th May, 1933.
An Ordinance to amend the Divorce Ordinance, 1932.
[26th May, 1933.]
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 Divorce Amend- Short title. ment Ordinance, 1933.
of Ordin-
2. Sub-section (3) of section 4 of the Divorce Ordinance, Amendment 1932, is repealed and the following sub-section is sub- stituted :-
(3) Nothing herein shall authorise the court to make any decree of judicial separation or of restitution of conjugal rights except where the marriage was a Christian marriage or its civil equivalent and where both the parties to the marriage had their usual place of residence in the Colony at the time of the commencement of proceedings.
3. Sub-section (3) of section 17 of the Divorce Ordin- ance, 1932, is repealed and the following sub-section is substituted :-
(3) A decree of judicial separation shall have the effect which a divorce a mensa et thoro had in England before the Matrimonial Causes Act, 1857, and such other legal effect as hereinafter mentioned.
ance No. 35 of 1932, s. 4.
Amendment of Ordin-
ance No. 35 of 1932,
s. 17.
20 and 21 Vict. c. 85.
4. Sub-section (2) of section 38 of the Divorce Ordi- Repeal of nance, 1932, is repealed.
5. Forms Nos. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 16, 18, 25 and 29 in the Schedule to the Divorce Ordinance, 1932, are repealed.
Ordinance No. 35 of 1932, s. 38 (2). Repeal of certain
forms in Schedule to Ordinance
No. 35 of 1932.
mencement.
6. This Ordinance shall be read and construed as one Construction with, and shall come into operation at the same time as, the and com- Divorce Ordinance, 1932, which it amends and which shall not be brought into operation by Proclamation until His Majesty's pleasure not to disallow this Ordinance is known.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 25th day of May, 1933.
R. C. A. NORTH, Deputy Clerk of Councils.
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