CO129-610-5 Marriages solemnized in Stanley Camp during the Japanese occupation and subsequent legislation for divorce 14-2-1947 - 27-6-1947 — Page 40

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Mr.

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DRAFT.

CODE TELEGRAM

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Secretary of State.

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INMEDIATE

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NO.

882

CONFIDENTIAL.

(10)

Your telegram No. 905.

Internment Camp Divorces.

1.

On assumption Dalziel was

domiciled in Hong Kung

time of action

FURTHER ACTION.

I agree to introduction of validating Bill

proposed in your telegram, with omission

of suspending clause prescribed in

Article XXVI of Royal Instructions.

2. As regards terms of Bill,

definition of "Supreme Court" in Section 2

would appear to asume a positive answer

to the very question at issue, namely

whether the Chief Justice sitting in the

Internment Camp was the Supreme Court of the Colony. I am aĞvi

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definition a

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2 Court it might

be preferable to amend it so as to avoid

this asumption. As however there is no

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other reference to the Court in the ill

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desciable that when

བསྟོད་པ་དང་མེད་པར་མ་ཚ་གྲངས་ག་པ་ཡིས་རིག་ཏེ་མས་བརྣམས་པས་བར་བཅད་པ་ན་ད་པ་མ་་་་

parties to the divorce are informed of this

legislation, they should be warned of

doubt

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