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4. Property of the deceased charged with, or devised or bequeathed (either by a specific or general description) subject to a charge for the payment of debts.
S. The fund, if any, retained to meet pecuniary legacies.
6. Properly specifically devised or bequeathed, rateably according to value.
7. Property appointed by will under a general power, rateably jupcording to value,
The following provisions shall also apply-
(0) the order of application may be varied by the will of the
deceased;
(b) this Part of this Schedule does not affect the liability of immoy- able property to answer the estate duty imposed thereon in exoneration of other assets.
HANG CONG
No. 27 of 1971.
I assent.
Short title.
(Cap. 267.3
Consular Conventions Ordinance.
(Cap. 179)
Education Ordinance.
(Cap. 88.)
Application of English Law Ordinance.
SECOND SCHEDULE.
Amendments.
(s. 76]
Section 3 is amended by deleting subsection (3).
Section 53 is amended by deleting subsection (4).
The Schedule is amended-
(a) by deleting items 2, 12 and 17;
(5) in item 16 by deleting "8, 9, 10 and 11′′
and substituting the following
"B and 9"; and
(c) by deleting items 19, 22, 58, 62, 63 and
58.
Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 9th day of June, 1971.
Clerk to the Legislative Council.
This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the bill, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said bill.
Hugh Woman. Woken
Acting Governor.
24th June, 1971.
An Ordinance to consolidate with amendments the law relating
to the status of married persons.
[7th October, 1971.]
Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Married Persons Status Ordinance 1970 and shall come into operation on the 7th October 1971.
Short title and Commencement.
2. (1) Save where otherwise appears, this Ordinance applies Application. to persons who are parties to a marriage, whether married before
or after the commencement of this Ordinance,
(2) In subsection (†), “marriage" means—
(4) a marriage celebrated or contracted in accordance with
the provisions of the Marriage Ordinance;
(Cap. 1813
Clerk to the Legislative Council.
(b) a modern marriage validated by the Marriage Reform
Ordinance;
(Cap. 1783
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