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1969 No. 1860.

MARRIAGE.

THE HONG KONG DIVORCE JURISDICTION

(AMENDMENT) ORDER 1969,

Made

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Coming into Operation

31st July 1969

1st August 1969

At the Court at Arundel Park, the 31st day of July 1969

Present,

The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, by virtue and in exercise of the powers con- ferred upon Her in that behalf by section 2 of the Indian and Colonial Divorce Jurisdiction Act 1926(a), is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered. as follows-n

L. (1) This Order may be cited as the Hong Kong Divorce Jurisdiction (Amendment) Order 1969.

(2) This Order shall be construed as one with the Hong Kong Divorce Jurisdiction Order in Council 1935(b) and this Order and that Order may be cited together as the Hong Kong Divorce Jurisdiction Orders 1935 and 1969.

(3) This Order shall come into operation on 1st August 1969, 1. Article 3 of the Hong Kong Divorce Jurisdiction Order in Council 1935 is amended by the deletion from paragraph (c) of the words "the Secretary of State for the Colonies" and the substitution of the words "a Secretary of State".

Explanatory Note.

W. O. AGNEW,

(This Nate is not part of the Order).

This Order amends Article 3c) of the Hong Kong Divores Jurisdic- tion Order in Council 1935 by substituing a reference to one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State for the reference to the Secretary of State for the Colonies,

(a) 1926 c. 40,

(6) SR. & O. 19357836 (Rev. VI. p. 18; 1935, p. 585).