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(Cap. 178.)

(2) Where the parties to a marriage which is dissolved in accordance with Part V

of the Marriage Reform Ordinance have agreed as to the amount of maintenance to be payable by one of the parties to the other after the dissolution of the marriage and have recorded the terms of that agreement as part of the agreement or memorandum dissolving the marriage subsection (1) shall not have effect to confer jurisdiction at any time on any court in respect of maintenance for either of the

parties to the former marriage.".

Repeal and replacement of section 9.

if

Section 9 of the principal Ordinance is repealed

and replaced by the following

"Power to

grant relief limited to certain marriages.

(Cap. 178.)

9. Nothing in this Ordinance shall authorize the court to pronounce a decree of divorce, nullity, judicial separation

or presumption of death and dissolution of marriage or to make any other order unless the marriage to or in respect of which the decree or order relates was a customary marriage celebrated in accordance with section 7 of the Marriage Reform Ordinance and registered in accordance with Part IV of that Ordinance or was a monogamous

marriage.".