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Ordinance completely to this new class of case. results of this omission are as follows :—
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(a) Certified copies of orders which have to be for- warded must, in general, be forwarded through the Secretary of State, however near to Hong Kong the other British possession may be see for example section 3 of Ordinance No. 9 of 1921.
(b) There is no power to make in absentia a provi- sional maintenance order against a person resi- dent anywhere except in England or Ireland : sec section 5 (1) of Ordinance No. 9 of 1921.
(c) There is no provision for the admissibility of depositions taken, or documents signed, anywhere except in England or Ireland: see sections 9 and 10 of Ordinance No. 9 of 1921.
The object of the present bill is to remedy these defects. It proposes to insert in the principal Ordinance in place of the present section 12 a new section which will provide that where the Governor is satisfied that reciprocal provi- sions have been made by any British possession or protec- torate for the enforcement of maintenance orders made in Hong Kong he may extend the principal Ordinance to such possession or protectorate and that thereupon the Ordinance shall apply as though the references to England or Ireland were references to such possession or protecto- rate and the references to the Secretary of State for the Colonies were references to the Governor of such posses- sion or protectorate The draft of this part of the new section 12 was supplied by the Secretary of State.
2. Section 3 of this Ordinance is intended to give pro- clamations already made under the present section 12 the same effect as if they had been made under the new section 12.
6th August, 1929.
J. H. KEMP,
Attorney General.