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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.
HỒNG KONG
No. 28 OF 1971.
Clerk to the Legislative Council.
I assent.
Hugh Moraven-bakin
Acting Governor.
24th June, 1971.
An Ordinance to provide for the maintenance and custody of
illegitimate children.
[7th October, 1971.1
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 Affiliation Proceed- ings Ordinance 1971 and shall come into operation on the 7th October 1971.
Short title and Commencement,
2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires- Interpretation. "affiliation order" means an order, made under section 5, that
a man adjudged to be the putative father of an illegitimate child shall make payments to the mother of the child or to any other person who is named in the order; "court" means the District Court:
"custodian" means any person, other than the mother or putative father, who is appointed as custodian of a child or to whose care a child is committed under or by virtue of any Ordinance:
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