ORDINANCES Nos. 3 AND 4 OF 1875 . 1363
False Personation. Marriage.
period not less than three years , or to be imprisoned for any term not
exceeding two years, with or without hard labor, and with or without
solitary confinement
2. Nothing in this Ordinance shall prevent any person from being Saving clause.
[Ibid, § 2.]
proceeded against and punished under any other Ordinance, or at Common
Law, in respect of an offence ( if any ) punishable as well under this Or
dinance as under any other Ordinance, or at Common Law.
3. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as "The False Short title.
[Ibid, § 4.]
Personation Ordinance , 1874."
No. 4 of 1875 .
An Ordinance to provide a general Register of Marriages celebrated in Title.
Hongkong.
[ 8th April , 1875. ]
HEREAS it is expedient that marriages celebrated in the Colony of Hongkong Preamble.
W should be systematically recorded in one general register : Be it enacted by the
Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows : --
1. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as The Marriage Ordinance, 1875 . Short title.
2. Every minister of religion or other person who has in his custody any register Existing regis
ters or copies
or other official record of marriages heretofore celebrated in this Colony shall , within thereof to be
delivered to the
three months after this Ordinance takes effect, deliver to the Registrar General the Registrar
General.
said register or official record, or a copy thereof.
3. Every person delivering a copy shall append thereto a certificate in the Copies to be
certified.
following form :
I, A.B. , & c. , do certify that the above written
pages are a true copy of the register (or official record) of marriages hereto
fore celebrated in St. John's Cathedral Church (or as the case may be) and
that the original is in my custody.
Dated the day of 187
(Signed, ) A. B..
4. The Governor may defray, from the public revenue of the Colony, all proper Expenses may be
defrayed from
expenses connected with the delivery of the said registers or official records , or of making public revenue.
and delivering copies thereof.