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SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1991

SOMETIMES, A PAIR WHO WANT TO GET MARRIED MAY NOT BE ABLE TO GO TO A MARRIAGE REGISTRY OR A LICENSED PLACE OF WORSHIP то CELEBRATE THEIR MARRIAGE.

"FOR EXAMPLE, THEY MAY BE CRITICALLY ILL OR PRISONERS," HE

EXPLAINED.

AFTER OBTAINING A SPECIAL LICENCE FROM THE GOVERNOR, THEY CAN THEN HOLD THE MARRIAGE CEREMONY AT A SPECIFIED PLACE AND TIME WITH A DEPUTY REGISTRAR TRAVELLING ALL THE WAY TO THE DESIGNATED PLACE TO PROVIDE THE SERVICE.

WITH ABOUT 50 'MASTERS OF WEDDING' DEPLOYED IN 14 MARRIAGE REGISTRIES, MR CHAN SAID THEY HAD PERFORMED A TOTAL OF 44,640 WEDDINGS OR OVER 90 PER CENT OF REGISTERED MARRIAGES IN HONG KONG LAST YEAR.

POLICE COMMISSIONER RETURNS AFTER MEETINGS IN CHINA

RETURNED TO HONG

THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE, MR LI KWAN-HA, KONG LAST NIGHT (FRIDAY) FROM CHINA WHERE HE HELD A SERIES OF MEETINGS WITH SENIOR OFFICIALS OF THE PUBLIC SECURITY BUREAU.

AND

MA LI DESCRIBED THE MEETINGS AS VERY USEFUL AND PRODUCTIVE SAID THEY REFLECTED WELL ON THE GOOD UNDERSTANDING AND CO-OPERATION EXISTING BETWEEN THE TWO SIDES.

MATTERS DISCUSSED TOUCHED ON A WIDE RANGE OF ISSUES INCLUDING COMMERCIAL CRIME, NARCOTICS, THE USE OF GUNS IN CRIME, AND SMUGGLING OFFENCES.

WITH REGARD TO THE THEFT OF CARS IN SUBSEQUENTLY BEEN SMUGGLED INTO CHINA, MR WOULD BE RETURNED TO THE TERRITORY.

LI

HONG KONG WHICH HAD CONFIRMED THAT THEY

SHOWN THAT THE CARS

CARS

WOULD BE RETURNED

HE SAID THAT IN CASES WHERE IT COULD BE HAD BEEN STOLEN, THEY WOULD BE HANDED OVER.

MR LI ALSO SAID THAT THE UNCONDITIONALLY,

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