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Ord. No. 64/86

Amendment of section 12.

7.

AFFILIATION PROCEEDINGS (AMENDMENT)

Section 12 of the principal Ordinance is amended-

(a) by inserting before "Where" the following---

“(1)"; and

(b) in subsection (1)(b), by deleting "payments" and substituting the

following

GUARDIANSHIP OF MINORS (AMENDMENT)

Ord. No. 65/86

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HONG KONG

No. 65 OF 1986

I assent.

"payment".

Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 19th day of November 1986.

L.S.

Edward YOUDE,

Governor.

20 November 1986

An Ordinance to amend the Guardianship of Minors Ordinance.

LAW Kam-sang, 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.

[21 November 1986]

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 Guardianship of Minors (Amendment) Short title. Ordinance 1986.

2.

LAW Kam-sang,

Clerk to the Legislative Council.

Section 4(4) of the principal Ordinance is amended by deleting "or dis- Amendment of charged" and substituting the following—

section 4. (Cap. 13.)

", discharged, suspended or revived after being so suspended".

3.

Section 10 of the principal Ordinance is amended-

Amendment of section 10.

(a) in subsection (1), by inserting after "friend)" the following-

"or the Director of Social Welfare";

(b) in subsection (2), by deleting "a further order requiring payment to that person by the parent or either of the parents excluded from having that custody of such weekly or other periodical sum towards the maintenance of the minor as the court thinks reasonable having regard to the means of that parent." and substituting the following-

"one or both of the following orders, that is to say.—

(a) an order requiring payment to that person by the parent or either of the parents excluded from having that custody of such lump sum (whether in one amount or by instalments) for the immediate and non-recurring needs of the minor or for the purpose of enabling any liabilities or expenses reasonably incurred in maintaining the minor before the making of the order to be met, or for both, as the court thinks reasonable having regard to the means of that parent;

(b) an order requiring payment to that person by the parent or either of the parents excluded from having that custody of such periodical sum towards the maintenance of the minor as the court thinks reasonable having regard to the means of that parent."; and

(c) in subsection (4), by deleting "or (2) may be varied or discharged" and

substituting the following-

"or an order under subsection (2) (other than an order for a lump sum payment in one amount or for a lump sum to be paid in instalments where all such instalments have been paid) may be varied, discharged, suspended or revived after being so suspended,".