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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JANUARY 3, 1936.

NOTICES.

No. 15.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

With reference to Notifications Nos. 737 and 738 published in the Hong Kong Government Gazette of the 27th September, 1935, the following Rules made by the Secretary of State with the concurrence of the Lord Chancellor are published for general information.

3rd January, 1936.

W. T. SOUTHORN,

Colonial Secretary.

THE HONG KONG (NON-DOMICILED PARTIES) DIVORCE RULES, 1936.

Dated January 1st, 1936.

In exercise of the powers conferred by the Indian and Colonial Divorce Jurisdiction Act, 1926, (16 and 17 Geo. 5, c. 40), and the Hong Kong Divorce Jurisdiction Order in Council, 1935, the Secretary of State for the Colonies with the concurrence of the Lord Chancellor hereby makes the following rules, namely:--

Short title and commencement.

1.-(1) These rules may be called the Hong Kong (Non- Domiciled Parties) Divorce Rules, 1936.

(2) They shall come into force on the 2nd day of January, 1936.

Appointment of Judges.

2.—(1) As soon as may be after the coming into force of these Rules, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong, shall submit to the Lord Chancellor through the Secretary of State for the Colonies the names of such number of the judges of the Court (including, if he thinks fit, the name of the Chief Justice himself) not exceeding four, as he may consider necessary for the purpose of exercising jurisdiction under the Act and these Rules.

(2) Upon the approval of the Lord Chancellor to any nomination so submitted being signified to the Chief Justice by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, the Chief Justice shall cause the names so approved to be notified in the Hong Kong Government Gazette as judges appointed to exercise jurisdiction under the Act, and the judges whose names shall have been so notified shall thereupon have power to exercise jurisdiction accordingly.

(3) At any time after the first nominations under these Rules have been approved, the Chief Justice may propose the names of a further judge or judges to take the place of, or to exercise jurisdiction in addition to, the judge or judges