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HONG KONG

No. 33 of 1972

I assent.

Mr Match.

Governor.

25th May, 1972.

An Ordinance to amend the Matrimonial Causes Ordinance.

[1st July, 1972.)

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 Matrimonial Causes (Amendment) (No. 2) Ordinance 1972 and shall come into opera- tion on the 1st July 1972.

2. Section 100 of the principal Ordinance is amended- (a) by deleting "subsection (2) of section [5" and substituting

the following

"section [8A(c)"'; and

(b) by deleting "before" and substituting the following-

"either before or after".

3. Section 11 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and re- placed by the following new sections—

"Ground for petition,

1969 . 55,

I. 1.

11. The sole ground on which a petition for divorce may be presented to the court by either party to a marriage shall be that the marriage has broken down irretrievably.

Short title and Commencement.

Amendment of section 100. (Cap. 179.)

Repeal and replacement of section 11