CHINESE MARRIAGE
No. 42 of 1912.
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PRESERVATION.
recoverable
4. Compensation payable under this Ordinance may be recovered on complaint made by the husband of a Chinese married woman in all respects in the same manner as a civil debt is recoverable under the Magistrates Ordinance, 1932.
on complaint of husband. Ordinance No. 41 of 1932.
tion a bar
5. The making of an order for compensation under this Ordinance shall be a bar to any further or other proceedings for damages for adultery at the suit of the person in whose favour the order is made.
to action for damages for adultery.
6. It shall be sufficient defence to any proceedings under section 3 if it is proved to the satisfaction of the magistrate that the defendant 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.
No. 43 of 1912, incorporated generally.
1913.
No. 1 of 1913, incorporated in No. 1 of 1845, repealed by No. 40 of 1932.
No. 2 of 1913, repealed by No. 4 of 1914.
No. 3 of 1913, incorporated in No. 3 of 1890, repealed by No. 41 of 1932.
No. 4 of 1913, incorporated in No. 65 of 1911.
No. 5 of 1913, incorporated in No. 9 of 1897.
No. 6 of 1913, repealed by No. 2 of 1917.