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adapt the original Ordinance to this new class of case.
The main results of this omission are as follows:-
(a)
Certified copies of orders which have to be
forwarded must, in general, be forwarded through
the Secretary of State, however near to Hong Kong the other British possession may be: see
for example section 3 of Ordinance No.9 of 1921.
(b) There is no power to make in absentia a
provisional maintenance order against a person resident anywhere except in England or Ireland:
see section 5 (1) of Ordinance No.9 of 1921.
(c) There is no provision for the admissibility of
depositions taken, or documents signed, anywhere
except in England or Ireland: see sections 9
and 10 of Ordinance No.9 of 1921.
The object of the present bill is to remedy these defects.
(Sd.) J. H. Kemp,
18th February, 1929.
Attorney General.