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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 28, 1916.

HONGKONG.

No. 5 OF 1916.

I ass nt to this Ordinance.

F. H. MAY,

LS

Governor.

Short title.

United Kingdom as sufficient notice in respect of marriages between

28th April, 1916.

An Ordinance to facilitate marriages between British subjects resident in the Colony and British subjects resident in the United Kingdom.

[28th April, 1916.]

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Conncil thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Marriage of British Subjects (Facilities) Ordinance, 1916.

Recognition 2. Where a marriage is intended to be solemnized or of certificates contracted in this Colony between a British subject re- issued in the gident in this Colony and a British subject resident in the United Kingdom, a certificate for marriage issued by a Superintendent Registrar in Eugland and a certificate for marriage issued by a Registrar, and a certificate of pro- elamation of banns, in Scotland, and a certificate for marriage issued by a Registrar in Ireland shall in this Colony have the samne effect as a certificate of receipt of notice of marriage issued by the Registrar of Marriages in the Colony.

British sub- jects intended

to be solem- nized in the Colony.

The giving of notice in the Colony in respect of a marriage to be solem- nized in the United Kingdom between a British sub- ject proceed- ing from the Colony and a British sub- ject resident in the United Kingdom.

3. Where a marriage is intended to be solemnized or contracted in the United Kingdom between a British sub- ject resident in the United Kingdom and a British subject reside..t in this Colony, a certificate of receipt of notice of marriage may be issued in the Colony in the like manner as if the marriage was to be solemnized or contracted under circumstances requiring a certificate of receipt of notice of marriage and as if both such British subjects were resident in the Colony.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 27th day of April, 1916.

A. G. M. FLETCHER,

Clerk of Councils.

Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 28th Jay of April, 1916.

CLAUD SEVERN,

Colonial Secretary.

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