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ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICERS 30 JUL 06,
Hongkong,
21st June...
790 6.
Report on Ordinance No. 5 of 190 6.
I have examined the accompanying Ordinance, entitled
An Ordinance to amend the law relating to the Property
of Married Women,
and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to
the Governor's Instructions.
The object of this Ordinance is to accord to married women in the Colony the like protection with regard to their property as is enjoyed by married women in England and elsewhere in the Empire.
For that purpose the Ordinance embodies and extends to the Colony with some slight necessary modifications the provisions of the enactments of the Imperial Parliament known as the Married Women's Property Acts, 1882 and 1893, amending the provisions of the Married Women's Property Act, 1870.
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