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HKK 14/4
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SAVING DESPATCH
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Governor,
Hong tang,
No 154 Wated 16 April 1969
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
Your Saving Despatch No. 1374 of 22 October
ref. GR 24/3231/67.
Chinese marriages in Hong Kong
Our Legal Advisers have commented as
follows on the proposals set out in the enclosure
to your savingram under reference:
"As I understand paragraphs 9, 11 and 13,
it is proposed that where the legal system
of a country provides for the Chinese modern
marriage and persons contract such a
marriage in such a country, whether before
or after "the appointed date", that marriage
shall be capable of being dissolved in Hong
Kong by mutual consent provided that both
spouses can show that on the date of the
divorce there existed a real and substantial
connexion between the two parties and
Hong Kong.
2. This proposal is founded on the changes
consequent in the law of England on the
House of Lords decision in Indyka versus
Indyka, changes which in the opinion of the
Governor's legal advisers will lessen the
risk that such divorces would not be
recognised in England.
Ed. (3746)
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