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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 27, 1935.
3. In the application of the said provisions to the said Colony :-
(a) The Court which is to exercise the jurisdiction thereby conferred shall be the Supreme Court of Hong Kong, and references in the said first Section to a High Court in India shall be read as references to such Supreme Court;
(b) references in the said first Section to India shall be read as references to the Colony of Hong Kong; and
(c) the reference to the Secretary of State in Council of India in the said Section shall be read as.referring to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
No. 738.
E. C. E. LEADBITTER.
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COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.
The Indian and Colonial Divorce Jurisdiction Act, 1926, section 1 of which has been applied to this Colony as from the first day of January, 1936, by the Hong Kong Divorce Jurisdiction Order in Council, 1935, is published for general information.
27th September, 1935.
R. A. D. FORREST,
Colonial Secretary.
Divorce jurisdiction of High Courts in India where
parties are domiciled in England or Scotland.
16 AND 17 GEORGE V, CHAPTER 40.
An Act to confer on Courts in India and other parts of His Majesty's Dominions jurisdiction in certain cases with respect to the dissolution of marriages, the parties whereto are domiciled in England or Scotland, and to validate certain decrees granted for the dissolution of the marriage of persons so domiciled.
[15th December, 1926.]
Be it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-
1.-(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, a High Court in India to which Part IX. of the Government of India Act applies shall have jurisdiction to make a decree for the dissolution of a marriage, and as incidental thereto to make an order as to damages, alimony or maintenance, custody of children, and costs, where the parties to the marriage are British subjects domiciled in England or in Scotland, in any case where a court in India would have such jurisdiction if the parties to the marriage were domiciled in India :
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