CHINESE MARRIAGE PRESERVATION.
No. 42 of 1912.
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determined by the magistrate upon a summons calling before him such claimant as well as the party on whose behalf such execution issued and the decision of the magistrate upon such claim shall be final.
a bar to
6. The receipt by the person in whose favour any order for compensation is made under the provisions of this Ordinance of such compensation shall be a bar to the institution or continuance of any further or other proceedings for damages for adultery against the person by whom such compensation has been paid at the suit of the person to whom such compensation has been paid.
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7. It shall be sufficient defence to any charge made under the provisions of section 3 (1) or of section 4 if it shall be proved to the satisfaction of the magistrate that the person so charged had reasonable cause, other than from information supplied by the woman with whom such person is charged with having committed adultery or whom such person is charged with receiving or harbouring, to believe that such woman was a spinster or to believe that she was a widow.
excuse
8. A person who receives or harbours a Chinese woman who has left her husband because of his cruelty to her or because of his failure properly to maintain her shall not be deemed to have received or harboured such married woman without reasonable excuse.
[s. 9, rep. No. 43 of 1912 Supp. Sched.]
No. 43 of 1912, incorporated generally.
*As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.
CHINESE MARRIAGE
PRESERVATION.
No. 42 of 1912.
2217
determined by the magistrate upon a summons calling before him such claimant as well as the party on whose behalf such execution issued and the decision of the magistrate upon such claim shall be final.
a bar to
6. The receipt by the person in whose favour any order Receipt of for compensation is made under the provisions of this Ordi- compensation nance of such compensation shall be a bar to the institution action for or continuance of any further or other proceedings for damages for
adultery. damages for adultery against the person by whom such com- pensation has been paid at the suit of the person to whom such compensation has been paid.
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7. It shall be sufficient defence to any charge made under Defence to the provisions of section 3 (1) or of section 4 if it shall be charge. proved to the satisfaction of the magistrate that the person so charged had reasonable cause, other than from information supplied by the woman with whom such person is charged with having committed adultery or whom such person is charged with receiving or harbouring, to believe that such woman was a spinster or to believe that she was a widow.
excuse
8. A person who receives or harbours a Chinese woman Reasonable who has left her husband because of his cruelty to her or defined. because of his failure properly to maintain her shall not be deemed to have received or harboured such married woman without reasonable excuse.
[s. 9, rep. No. 43 of 1912 Supp. Sched.]
No. 43 of 1912, incorporated generally.
*As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.
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