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Ord. No. 63/79
MATRIMONIAL CAUSES (AMENDMENT)
Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 1st day of August 1979.
MATRIMONIAL PROCEEDINGS AND PROPERTY (AMENDMENT)
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.
L.S.
HONG KONG
No. 64 OF 1979
I assent.
Ord. No. 64/79
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MURRAY MacLehose,
Governor.
2nd August, 1979.
An Ordinance to amend the Matrimonial Proceedings and Property
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 Matrimonial Proceedings Short title. and Property (Amendment) Ordinance 1979.
2. The principal Ordinance is amended in Part III by adding before Addition of new section 30 the following section-
"Power of court hearing petition to terminate
subsisting maintenance order made by another court.
1960 c. 48, 9. 7(3).
29A. (1) If, at the time of the presentation of a peti- tion for divorce, nullity of marriage or judicial separation, there is subsisting an order, made by a court in previous proceedings between the same persons as are parties to the petition, requiring financial provision to be made for the maintenance by one of the parties of the other, or for the maintenance by either or both of the parties of a child of the family, the court hearing the petition may, if it thinks fit, direct that the said order shall cease to have effect on such date as may be specified in the direction.
(2) For the purpose of this section "parties to the petition" means the petitioner and the respondent.".
Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 1st day of August 1979.
section 29A. (Cap. 192.)
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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