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Friday, May 12, 1972

It abolishes the old common law right to claim restitution

of conjugal rights.

The Bill also adds new provisions to the Intestates' Estates

Ordinance (1 of 1971) and the Married Persons Status Ordinance (27 of 1971).

The effect of the new provisions will be as follows:

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To deprive a judicially separated spouse of any right to succeed on the intestacy of the other spouse;

To enable application to be made after the termination of the marriage on questions between spouses as to the ownership of property;

To provide that one spouse's substantial contribution

to the improvement of the marital property entitles

him or her to a share, or a greater share, in that

property; and

To abolish the wife's common law agency of necessity.

The Bill, if passed into law, will come into operation on July 1,

1972, the same date of commencement as that of the Matrimonial Causes

(Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 1972, with which some of its provisions are linked.

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