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Ord. No. 61/79

Amendment of

8.

section 63A.

IMMIGRATION (AMENDMENT) (NO. 3)

person under the command of such captain or person may exercise respectively the powers conferred by section 58 on an officer in command of any of Her Majesty's ships of war and on any person under the command of such officer. (2) Without prejudice to section 51, the Governor may give directions to any person with respect to the exercise of any powers under this section, either generally or in any particular case.

(3) A person shall, in the exercise of any powers under this section, comply with any directions given by the Governor under subsection (2).”.

Section 63A of the principal Ordinance is amended-

(a) by inserting after “a person is charged with" the following-

"an offence under section 38(4) or section 39 or with"; and

(b) by inserting after "certifying that that" the following--

"or any".

Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 1st day of August 1979.

MARRIAGE REFORM (AMENDMENT)

Ord. No. 62/79

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HONG KONG

No. 62 OF 1979

I assent.

L.S.

MURRAY MacLehose,

Governor.

2nd August, 1979.

An Ordinance to amend the Marriage Reform Ordinance.

[3rd August, 1979]

Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent

of the Legislative Council thereof.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Marriage Reform (Amend- Short title. ment) Ordinance 1979.

2. Section 4 of the principal Ordinance is amended by deleting Amendment of "on and after" and substituting the following—

section 4. (Cap. 178.)

"on or after".

LORNA LEUNG,

Clerk to the Legislative Council.

This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the bill, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said bill.

LORNA LEUNG,

Clerk to the Legislative Council.

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3. Section 9 of the principal Ordinance is amended by deleting Amendment of subsection (3) and substituting the following-

*(3) The District Court shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine an application by a person claiming to be a party to a customary marriage or a validated marriage for a declaration that a customary marriage or validated marriage, as the case may be, subsists between that person and the other party to such marriage where-

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(a) the other party disputes the existence of the marriage; (b) the other party is unwilling to join in the application for the

registration of the marriage under this section; or

(c) the whereabouts of the other party cannot after careful and reasonable inquiry be ascertained or it is for any other reason impracticable for such other party to be apprised of the application for the registration of the marriage under this section.".

section 9.

Section 15 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and replaced Repeal and

replacement of by the following new section-

section 15.

"Dissolution

of certain marriages on

and after the appointed day.

15. A customary marriage or a validated marriage subsisting on the appointed day and registered in accordance with Part IV may where at least one party to the marriage has a substantial connexion with Hong Kong be dissolved on or after the day upon which such marriage has been so registered-

(a) in accordance with the Matrimonial Causes Ordin- (Cap. 179.)

ance; or

(b) in accordance with this Part.".

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Ord. No. 62/79

MARRIAGE REFORM (AMENDMENT)

Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 1st day of August 1979.

LORNA LEUNG,

Clerk to the Legislative Council.

This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the bill, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said bill.

LORNA LEUNG,

Clerk to the Legislative Council.