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INSTRUMENTS

STATUTORY

1969 No.

MARRIAGE

Hong Kong (Non-Domiciled Parties) Divorce

Made

Rules 1969

Coming into Operation

19th Dicember 1969 1st January 1970

In exercise of his powers under subsection (4) of section 1 of the Indian and Colonial Divorce Jurisdiction Act 1926(a), as amended by article 2 of, and Part II of the Schedule to, the Government of India (Adaptation of Acts of Parliament) Order 1937(b) and paragraph (d) of section 1 of the Colonial and Other Territories (Divorce Jurisdiction) Act 1950(c), and subsection (1) of section 2 of the said Act of 1926 as amended by the said article 2 and Part II of the Schedule to the said Order of 1937, and as applied by articles 2 and 3 of the Hong Kong Divorce Jurisdiction Order in Council 1935(d) as amended by article 2 of the Hong Kong Divorce Jurisdiction (Amendment) Order 1969(e), the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with the concurrence of the Lord Chancellor, hereby makes the following Rules :-

Citation and commencement

1. These Rules may be cited as the Hong Kong (Non-Domiciled Parties) Divorce Rules 1969, and shall come into operation on 151 January 1970,

Interpretation

2. In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires—

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"" court means the Supreme Court of Hong Kong;

Matrimonial Causes Ordinance * means the Matrimonial Causes Ordinance of Hong Kong (f) and any rules made thereunder and also means any Ordinance or rules for the time being amending or replacing such Ordinance or rules;

“the Act of 1926" means the Indian and Colonial Divorce Jurisdiction Act 1926;

"the Act of 1940" means the Indian and Colonial Divorce Jurisdiction Act 1940(g);

"the Acts" means the Colonial and Other Territories (Divorce Juris- diction) Acts 1926 to 1950 and any Act amending or replacing the same.

Appointment of judges

3.—(1) The Chief Justice of Hong Kong may, from time to time, submit to the Lord Chancellor, through the Secretary of State for Foreign and

(a) 1926 c. 40.

(b) S.R. & O. 1937 He/230 (Rev. Vol. X, p. 545).

(c) 1950 c. 20.

(d) S.R. & O. 1935 836 (Rev. Vol. VI, p. 18; 1935 p. 585).

(e) S.I. 1969/1060(1969 I p. 3106),

(f) Laws of Hong Kong, Chapter 179.

(g) 1940 c. 35,