provides the form or the celebration or marriages within
the Colony and declares that a marriage shall be null and
void ir the parties knowingly and wilfully acquiesce in its
celebration in any place other than the orrice of the Registrar
or Marriages or a licensed place or worship (except when authorised by special licence).... or without a certificate or
performed into Camp notice or licence duly issued. Clarly these Marriages didnot
comply with the Ordinance and, unless the laws or Hong Kong were
suspendeu and the Common Law in some way revived, the marriuges
are void. >
It may be that if there is no practical legal way of
performing the marriage rite a ceremony good at Common Law is
valid,, but the point is one of too great concern to the parties
to leave anything to chance.
to.legislate, to declare the
beyond any doubt. The
the Hong
Therefore The only sare course is
put
marriage valid, and the mat ter
t logit codbin
riute Auchibry to errect this is by
Government when Civil Government 15
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Although it seems probable that marriages in Stanley
validative can
It is Consudared
are not valid we are advised that legislation suitely await the
restoration of Civil Government.
It would
sukrission in the last subpulegra
jue alia that
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be for its (the Gow. To pack; horoves, to meet the
Mr. Mimitt's letter,
the oxumunca ight providedor "the avoidance or doubts that" the
marriages in question "are, and have been since their celebration,
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