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THE HONGKONG. GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 17, 1907.

Short title and

A BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance to amend the Married Women's

Property Ordinance, 1906.

BE it cuncted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and cousent of the Legislative Commeil thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Married Women's Property Amendment Ordinance, 1907, and shall be read constraction, and construed as one with the Married Women's Property Ordinance, 1906, hereinafter called the Principal Ordinance,

Repeal of

2. Section 9 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby re- section 9 of pealed and the following section to be numbered 9 is sub- the Principal stituted therefor :--

Ordinance

and now

section

substituted

therefor.

Property acquired

after the Ist January,

1883. by a woman mar- ried before the 1st January. 1883, to be held by her as

a feme sole.

Amendment

of section 27

of the Principal

Ordinance.

Proviso.

9. Every woman married before the 1st January, 1883, shall be entitled to have and to hold and to dispose in manner aforesaid as her separate property all real and personal property her title to which, whether vested or contingent, and whether in possession, reversion, or remainder shall have accrued after the 1st January, 1883, including any wages, earnings, money, and pro- perty so gained or acquired by her as afore- said."

3. Section 27 of the Principal Ordinace is hereby amended by the addition at the end of such section of the following proviso :——

Provided always that nothing in this Ordinance

contained shall affect

(1)

any judgment or order of any Court :

(2) any charge validly created; or

(3) any disposition duly made or effected; if such judgment or order was pronounced or made or such charge created or such disposition made or effected prior to the 15th day of June, 1906.

Objects and Reasons.

The object of this Ordinance is to insert a proviso to section 27 of the Principal Ordinance to prevent the re- opening of past proceedings or the alteration of things done between January 1st, 1883, and the 15th June, 1906.

It is thought desirable to substitute for section 9 of the Principal Ordinance which is ambiguous and inconsistent with its marginal note a new section 9 which follows ver- batim section 5 of the Married Women's Property Act of 1882.

H. H. J. GOMPERTZ, Attorney Generai,