TNAG-0875-FCO40-1085-Legislation-for-marriage-in-Hong-Kong-1979 — Page 44

Short title.

A BILL

ANNEX C TO XCR(79)141

To

Amend the Matrimonial Proceedings and Property Ordinance.

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 and Property (Amendment) Ordinance 1979.

Addition of new section 29A.

(Cap. 192.)

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The principal Ordinance is amended in Part III

by adding before section 30 the following section

"Power of

court hearing petition to terminate subsisting maintenance order made by another court. 1960 c.48, s.7(3).

29A. (1) If, at the time of the

presentation of a petition 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.