CO129-594-7 Proposed legislation to regularise registration of births- marriages and deaths in Stanley internment camp during... 16-10-1945 - 19-12-1946 — Page 37

A BILL

INTITULED.

An Ordinance to remove doubts as to the validity

of certain marriages solemnized in the Colony of Hong

Kong.

WHEREAS doubts have been entertained with respect to

the validity of marriages solemnized in the Colony of

Hong Kong between the

and the

day of

day of

1941,

1945, being

Short title

Validation of

certain marriages

the period during which the Registrar of Marriages ceased

to perform his duties owing to the invasion and occupation

of Hong Kong by Japan, and it is expedient to remove

those doubts.

BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the Governor of Hong Kong, with

the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof,

as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Hong Kong Marriages

Validity Ordinance, 194

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The marriages solemnized in Hong Kong between the

respective parties specified in the second and third columns

of the Schedule upon the approximate dates specified in the

first column thereof, by the Ministers specified in the fifth

column thereof, are, and have been since their celebration, as

valid as they would have been if the places specified in the

fourth column of the Schedule had been duly licensed under

Section 3 of the Marriage Ordinance, 1875 (hereinafter referred

to as "the Ordinance") and as if the formalities prescribed

by the Ordinance had been complied with. PROVIDED that this

Ordinance shall not render valid any marriage which before

the passing of this Ordinance has been declared invalid

by any Court of competent jurisdiction or affect any right

dependent on the validity or invalidity thereof or render

thereofjor

valid any marriage either of the parties to which has

subsequently during the life of the other lawfully inter-