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Objects and Reasons.
1. Section 2 of this Ordinance repeals section 21 (1) of the principal Ordinance and re-enacts it, as amended by section 5 of Ordinance No. 14 of 1926; but with the addition of the words "or the grant of a special licence by the Governor".
2. Section 37 of the principal Ordinance permitted Chinese persons who had already contracted a customary marriage to contract a registered marriage under the Ordinance.
3. Section 38, whilst containing saving as to section 37. provided that the Ordinance should apply to all marriages where neither of the parties has living an undivorced husband or wife except marriages between persons neither of whom professes the Christian religion duly celebrated according to the personal law and religion of the parties.
4. This Ordinance repeals both sections and substitutes new sections which whilst not requiring the general registration of customary marriages yet permits the parties to such marriages to contract a marriage under the Ordinance without prejudice to the previous customary marriage and which de- clare that every marriage under the principal Ordinance shall be a Christian marriage or the equivalent of a Christian marriage. The definition in section 38 (2) is derived from Nachimson's case, 1930 P. 217 and other cases referred to therein.
October, 1932.
C. G. ALABASTER,
Attorney General,
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