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Amendment of

Merchant

Shipping (Recruiting of Seamen) Ordinance. (Cap. 135.)

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PART III

JURISDICTION RELATING TO CAUSE

4. The Merchant Shipping (Recruiting of Seamen) Ordinance.

is amended in section 32(1) by deleting "High Court" and

substituting the following

"District Court".

Amendment of

5.

The Matrimonial Causes Ordinance is amended

the

Matrimonial

Causes

Ordinance.

(Cap. 179.)

(a) in section 2, by deleting the definition of "court"

and substituting the following

**Court" means the Supreme Court or the

District Court; 97

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(b) by repealing Part IIA and replacing it with the

following

Commencement and transfer

of

proceedings.

"PART IIA

COMMENCEMENT OF PROCEEDINGS

10A. (1) Subject to subsection (2), a

matrimonial cause and any other proceedings

under this Ordinance shall be commenced in the

District Court:

Provided that rules may make provision