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 63

provides the form or the celebration or marriages within

the Colony and declares that a marriage shall be null and

void ir the parties knowingly and wilfully acquiesce in its

celebration in any place other than the orrice of the Registrar

or Marriages or a licensed place or worship (except when authorised by special licence).... or without a certificate or

performed into Camp notice or licence duly issued. Clarly these Marriages didnot

comply with the Ordinance and, unless the laws or Hong Kong were

suspendeu and the Common Law in some way revived, the marriuges

are void. >

It may be that if there is no practical legal way of

performing the marriage rite a ceremony good at Common Law is

valid,, but the point is one of too great concern to the parties

to leave anything to chance.

to.legislate, to declare the

beyond any doubt. The

the Hong

Therefore The only sare course is

put

marriage valid, and the mat ter

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Government when Civil Government 15

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Although it seems probable that marriages in Stanley

validative can

It is Consudared

are not valid we are advised that legislation suitely await the

restoration of Civil Government.

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be for its (the Gow. To pack; horoves, to meet the

Mr. Mimitt's letter,

the oxumunca ight providedor "the avoidance or doubts that" the

marriages in question "are, and have been since their celebration,

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