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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 2, 1939.

Schedule,-contd.

SHORT TITLE.

AMENDMENT OR REPEAL.

46. The

Chinese Marriage Preser- vation Ordinance, 1912.

(No. 42 of 1912), -contd.

47. The General Loan

and Inscribed Stock Ordinance,

1913.

(No. 7 of 1913.)

reasonable excuse received or harboured a Chinese married woman who has left the protection of her husband, the magistrate may order such person to pay to the husband of the woman compensation not exceeding two hundred dollars.

4. Compensation payable under this Ordinance Compensa- may be recovered on complaint made by the tion husband of a Chinese married woman in all recoverable

summarily respects in the same manner as a civil debt

on complaint is recoverable under the Magistrates Ordin- of husband. ance, 1932.

Ordinance No. 41 of 1932.

tion a bar

5. The making of an order for compensation Order for under this Ordinance shall be a bar to any compensa- further or other proceedings for damages to action for for adultery at the suit of the person in damages for whose favour the order is made.

adultery.

6. It shall be sufficient defence to any proceed- Defence.

ings under section 3 if it is proved to the satisfaction of the magistrate that the de- fendant had reasonable cause, other than from information supplied by the woman with whom it is alleged that the defendant has committed adultery, or whom he is alleged to have received or harboured, to believe that such woman was a spinster or a widow.

(1) The preamble is amended by the insertion in the second line of the words in England immediately after the words

to be raised ".

(2) Section 3 is amended by the substitution- (i) of the word "has" for "shall have" in the first line;

(ii) of the words is hereafter for shall hereafter be in the second line.

(3) Section 5 is amended by the repeal of the

word shall in the second line.

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(4) Section 7 is amended by the substitution of the word has for shall have in the last line.

mentioned in

herein before

(5) Section 14 is amended by the substitution

of the words and figures section 13" for the words mentioned in the last line.

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(6) Section 16 is amended by the

substitution

of the words is not for shall not be

in the fourth line.

(7) Section 17 is

amended by the substitution of the words is not for may not be "

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in the third and fourth lines.

(8) Section 23 is amended by the substitution

of the word the last line.

has "

for

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shall have "' in

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