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Amendment

12.

of median 23.

(a)

Amendment

of section 26

Amendment of section 27.

Amcodment

(b) Where the Registrar is satisfied that he and the parties and witnesses all understand the Chinese language or the same dialect thereof, the marriago may be celebrated wholly in that language or that dialect.".

Section 23 of the principal Ordinance is amended by- the deletion therefrom of the word "registered" and the sub- stitution therefor of the following-

"licensed"'; and

(b) the insertion therein, after the word "Registrar" where that

word first occurs therein, of the following-

"and such marriage is not to be celebrated by the Registrar".

13. Section 26 of the principal Ordinance is amended by the deletion therefrom of the words and commas " when authorized by the Colonial Secretary to do so,”.

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14. Section 27 of the principal Ordinance is amended by the insertion therein, at the end of the word "certificate" where that word first occurs in that section, of the letter "g".

15. Section 28 of the principal Ordinance is amended by the of section 28. insertion in subsection (2) thereof, within the brackets and after the word

"licence", of the following-

Repeal and

replacement

of section 34.

Amendment

or when celebrated under the provisions of the second proviso to subsection (2A) of section 22, or when celebrated under the provisions of section 40".

16. Section 33 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and replaced by the following-

**Penalty for removing, etc. records.

33. Any person who wilfully removes, defaces, alters or destroys any notice, certificate, licence or other document kept or filed by the Registrar pursuant to, or for the purposes of, the provisions of this Ordinance shall be liable to a fine of one thousand dollars and to imprisonment for six months.".

17. Section 37 of the principal Ordinance is amended by the of section 37. deletion therefrom of the comma appearing after the word "alterations"

in the second place where that word occurs in that section.

Amendment

of section 40.

18. Section 40 of the principal Ordinance is amended by-- (a) the deletion of subsection (1) thereof and the substitution there-

for of the following-

"(1) Where two persons who have lived together in unlawful concubinage desire to marry and one of them is in articulo mortis, the Registrar or any competent minister

may celebrate the marriage at any place and at any time notwithstanding that the Registrar has not issued a cer- tificate under the provisions of section 9 and that the Governor has not granted a special licence under the provisions of section 12:

Provided that no such matriage shall be valid unless the following conditions are observed—–

First Schedule. Form 7.

(4) no such marriage shall be celebrated unless both the parties are able to signify their consent therc- to and do so in the presence of two witnesses; (6) no such marriage shall be celebrated where either of the parties is under twenty-one years of age, not being a widower or widow, unless either the written consent of the person whose consent is required under the provisions of section 15 or 16 is produced to the Registrar or minister, or such person is present and gives his or her consent verbally;

(c) no such marriage shall be valid which would be null and void, on the ground of kindred or affinity, in England or Wales;

(2) a certificate in the prescribed form shall be signed by the Registrar or minister, and by the witnesses to the marriage, and, where practicable, by the persons so married, and, if either of the parties is unable to sign, the Registrar or minister shall certify accordingly:

(e) where the marriage is cclebrated by a minister, the minister shall, within seven days from the celebration thereof, forward such certificate to the Registrar, to be filed in his office."; and (b) the dcfction from subsection (3) thereof of the figures and

brackets "(1)"; and

(c) the re-numbering of paragraph (2) of subsection (3) thereof as

subsection (4) thereof.

of First

19. The First Schedule to the principal Ordinance is amended by Amendment (a) the deletion from the first column of Form 1 of the word Schedule.

"bridegroom" and the substitution therefor of the following-

""bridegroom":

(b) the deletion from the second column of Form 1 of the words "Bachelor or widower-Spinster or widow." and the substitu- tion therefor of the following-

"Bachelor, widower or divorced person-Spinster, widow or divorced person.";