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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SтH AUGUST, 1896.

No. 14 OF 1896.

An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hong- kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, to amend The Marriage Ordinance, 1875.

LS WILLIAM ROBINSON,

Governor.

[30th July, 1896.]

E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the

Batvice and content of the Legislative council therest.

as follows:--

1. This Ordinance may be cited as The Marriage Law Amendment Ordinance, 1890, and shall be read with and construed as one Ordinance with Ordinance 14 of 1875.

2. Section 39 of Ordinance 14 of 1875 is hereby repealed and in lieu thereof the following figures and words are substituted :----

39. This Ordinance shall apply to all marriages where neither of the parties has an undivorced hus- band or wife living, except marriages between persons neither of whom professes the Christian religion duly celebrated according to the per- sonal law and religion of the parties; and the words "husband" and "wife" as used in this section shall include persons married according to their personal law and religion.

3. In the event of two parties wishing to contract a marriage before the Registrar General under the provisions of section 24 of Ordinance 14 of 1875, they shall each of them, before being permitted to do so, sign a written declaration in the presence of the Registrar General, which he shall witness, in the form set out in the Schedule to this Ordinance. Such declaration shall, if necessary, be interpreted to both or either of the parties in their own language in the presence of the Registrar General, and the person interpreting such declaration shall subscribe his name to it as interpreter.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 22ud day of July, 1896.

F. J. BADELEY, Acting Clerk of Councils,

Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 30th

- day of July, 1896,

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Colonial Secretary.

Titl*.

Short title.

and construe

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Repeal of s. 39 of Ord. 14 of 1876, and substitution ei new section.

Paesmarry- ing before Registrar

to sigu declaration.

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SCHEDULE.

I, A.B., of

do hereby declare that I fully understandi that by publicly taking U.D. as my wife (or husband as the case may be) in the presence of the Registrar General, I shall become legally married and bound to the said C.D. although no other rite of a civil or religious nature shall take place, and I do also under- stand that the effect of my publicly taking the said C.D. as my wife (or husband as the case may be) as aforesaid is to create between us à marriage which cannot be dissolved during our joint lives excep! by a valid judgment of divorce, and that, if either of us, before the death of the other, shall contract another marriage while this one remains undissolved, he or she will be guilty of bigamy and will be liable to the punishment for that offence,

Witness.

W.X.. Registrar General,

Interpreted to the said A.B., in the

presence of W.X., Registrar General.

Y.Z., Interpreter.

(Signed).

A.B.

language, in the