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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 7, 1907.

HONGKONG.

No. 5 OF 1907.

An Ordinance to amend the Married Women's

Property Ordinance, 1906.

LS

F. H. MAY,

Officer Administering the Government.

[7th June, 1907]

Short title and

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

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Married Women's Property Amendment Ordinance, 1907, and shall be read construction, 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 of pealed and the following section to be numbered 9 is sub- the Principal stituted therefor:

Ordinanco

and new

section

substituted

therefor.

Property acquired after the Ist January, 1883, by a

Woman Dar- 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 of 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 Ordinance is hereby amended by the addition at the end of such scetion 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 ;

(3) any trust validly created; or

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

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong this 6th day of June, 1907.

A. G. M. FLETCHER,

Clerk of Councils,

Assented to by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, the 7th day of June, 1907.

A. M. THOMSON,

Colonial Sceretary.