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 62

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FURTHER ACTION.

Stanker Inherent

Marriages performed in Camp. Marriages

performed by priests in episcopally ordained

orders whether Church of England or

Roman Catholic are valid at Common Law, but

since 1753 the law of marriage in England

been governed by statute, and except in ships

on the High Seas or in Colonies where the

Common Law runs, such、marriages are not valid.

The law of Hong Kong is the law of England

as /existed on the 3rd day of April, 1843,

Lexis

except in so far as such laws are

has

inapplicable to the local circumstances of the

Colony or its inhabitants, and except so far

as they have been modiried by laws passed by

the local legislature.

The Marriage Ordinance of Hong, Kong

/provides