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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 6, 1935.

Power to

payments

cation for maintenance

9.-(1) Where, on the hearing of an application for an order interim order of maintenance, the application is adjourned for any where appli- period exceeding one week, the magistrate may order that the husband do pay to the wife or to the magistrate's clerk or any third person on her behalf a weekly sum, not exceed- ing such an amount as might be ordered to be paid under a final order, for the maintenance of the wife and any child or children in her custody until the final determination of the case:

is adjourned. 15 & 16 Geo.

5, c. 51,

s. 6.

Notice of change of address.

15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 51, s. 4.

Enforcement of orders as

children.

15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 51, s. 5.

Provided that the order directing such payment shall not remain in operation for more than three months from the date on which it was made.

(2) Any such order shall be enforced in like manner as if it were a final order of the magistrate.

10. Any person for the time being under an obligation to make payments, including costs, under an order under this Ordinance shall give notice to such persons, if any, as may be specified in the order of any change of address, and any person failing to give such notice without reasonable excuse shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars.

11. Where an order under this Ordinance contains a to custody of provision committing to the applicant the legal custody of any children of the marriage, a copy of the order may be served upon any person in whose actual custody the children may for the time being be, and thereupon the provision may, with- out prejudice to any other remedy open to the applicant, be enforced under subsection (2) of section 34 of the Magis- trates Ordinance, 1932, as if it were an order of the magis- trate requiring that person to give up the children to the applicant.

Ordinance No. 41 of 1932.

Procedure.

Ordinance No. 41 of 1932.

Repeal of Ordinance No. 10 of 1905.

12. All applications under this Ordinance shall be made and be dealt with and all orders be enforced in accordance with the Magistrates Ordinance, 1932.

13. The Married Women (Desertion) Ordinance, 1905, is repealed.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 5th day of December, 1935.

H. R. BUTTERS,

Deputy Clerk of Councils.