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TABLE OF CORRESPONDENCE.

BETWEEN

THE MARRIED PERSONS (SEPARATION AND MAINTENANCE)

ORDINANCE, 1935,

AND

The Summary Jurisdiction (Married Women) Act, 1895, (58 & 59

Vict., c. 39),

The Married Women (Maintenance) Act, 1920, (10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 63), The Summary Jurisdiction (Separation and Maintenance) Act, 1925,

(15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 51), and

Section 5 of the Licensing Act, 1902, (2 Edw. 7, c. 28),

showing the corresponding sections of the Married Women (Desertion)

Ordinance, 1905, (No. 10 of 1905).

Section of Section of

this Ordinance.

English

Act.

Section of

Ordinance

No. 10 of

1905.

Remarks.

1

2

42 & 43 V., c. 19, s. 3.

2 E. 7, c.

28, s. 5. 15 & 16 G. 5, c. 51, s. 3.

3

58 & 59 V.,

c. 39, s. 4.

2 E. 7, c.

28, s. 5 (1).

15 & 16 G. 5, c. 51, s. 1 (1) & (2).

1

2,8

Short title.

Incorporates, with amendments, the definition contained in the old Ordinance; "spouse" used in preference to "wife" as applied to a Chinese customary marriage.

Christian marriage or its civil equivalent defined as in the Divorce Ordinance, 1932.

Definition of 'habitual drunk- ard", as defined in s. 3 (b) of the Habitual Drunkards Act, 1879, applied by s. 5 of the Licensing Act, 1902, and extended to drug ad- dicts by s. 3 of the Sum- mary Jurisdiction (Separa- tion and Maintenance) Act, 1925, with the addition of the words and in accord- ance with" before "medical advice "; the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, 1935," for the Dangerous Drugs Acts, 1920 and 1923 ".

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English provisions combined; "under section 38 of the Offences against the Person Ordinance, 1865, of an assault upon her which in the opinion of the convicting magistrate is of an aggravat- ed character,' for of an aggravated assault upon her within the meaning of sec- tion forty-three of the Offen- ces against the Person Act, 1861,' as the word "aggra- vated" appears in the Eng- lish Act but not the local Ordinance; "one hundred dollars" for "five pounds"; "magistrate" for "court" in this section and in sections 5, 7, 9 and 11.

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