1972 Ed.]
Matrimonial Proceedings and Property
[CAP. 192
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CHAPTER 192
MATRIMONIAL PROCEEDINGS AND PROPERTY
To consolidate and amend the law relating to ancillary and other relief in matrimonial causes and other matrimonial proceedings; to abolish the right to claim restitution of conjugal rights; and for purposes connected with or relating to the matters aforesaid.
[1st July, 1972.]
PART I
PRELIMINARY
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Matrimonial Proceedings and Property Ordinance.
2. (1) In this Ordinance unless the context otherwise requires-
"adopted" means adopted in pursuance of an adoption order made under any enactment in force in Hong Kong at any time relating to the adoption of children or any corresponding imperial enactment;
"child", in relation to one or both parties to a marriage, includes an illegitimate or adopted child of that party or, as the case may be, of both parties;
"child of the family", in relation to the parties to a marriage, means-
(a) a child of both those parties; and
(b) any other child who has been treated by both those parties as a child of their family;
"court" means the Supreme Court or, where the District Court has jurisdiction by virtue of the Matrimonial Causes Ordinance, the District Court;
"custody", in relation to a child, includes access to the child; "education" includes training.
(2) For the avoidance of doubt it is hereby declared that references in this Ordinance to remarriage include references to a marriage which is by law void or voidable.
PART II
ANCILLARY AND OTHER RELIEF IN MATRIMONIAL CAUSES AND OTHER MATRIMONIAL PROCEEDINGS
3. On a petition for divorce, nullity of marriage or judicial separation, the court may order either party to the marriage to make to the other such periodical payments for his or her maintenance and for such term, being a term beginning not earlier than...
Originally
39 of 1972.
Short title.
Interpretation. 1970 c. 45, s. 27.
(Cap. 179.)
Maintenance pending suit in cases of divorce, etc. 1970 c. 45, s. 1.