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Short title.

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Notice of intended marriage.

Affidavit

before issue of certificate or licence.

Notice to be

filed, etc., by Secretary for Chinese Affairs.

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No. 6 of 1903.

· FOREIGN MARRIAGE.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Foreign Marriage Ordinance, 1903.

2. Notice of a marriage intended to be solemnized under the Foreign Marriage Act, 1892, may be given in writing signed by the party giving such notice to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs by one of the parties intending such marriage who has had his or her usual place of abode in the Colony for one week immediately preceding such notice.

3. Before the issue of such certificate or licence as herein- after mentioned, the said party shall appear personally before the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, and shall make affidavit, which the Secretary for Chinese Affairs is hereby authorised to take, that he or she believes there is not any impediment or objection which should obstruct the solem- nization of the marriage.

4. The Secretary for Chinese Affairs shall file every such notice as aforesaid in his office, and shall, unless such notice has been published by proclamation of banns, exhibit one copy thereof at his office, and may, if he thinks fit, exhibit copies in other conspicuous places open to the public, and shall enter a copy of the said notice with the date of such entry in the Marriage Notice Book kept under the Marriage Ordinance, 1875, and shall allow any person to inspect such No. 7 of 1875. book during office hours without fee.

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5. At any time not less than fifteen days (except when Secretary for the Governor shall grant a licence as hereinafter provided)

Chinese

Affairs.

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Governor's licence.

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after the giving of such notice, the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, unless he is aware of any impediment or objection which should obstruct the solemnization of the marriage, shall, on payment by the party giving such notice of a fee of one dollar, give to such party a certificate that the said notice has been given and published as aforesaid.

6. At any time after the giving of such notice the Governor, unless he is aware of any impediment or objection which should obstruct the solemnization of the marriage, may grant a licence authorising the Secretary for Chinese Affairs to issue his certificate on or after any day named in such licence. The fee for such licence shall be ten dollars.

No. 7 of 1903, repealed by No. 20 of 1913.

* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.

† As amended by No. 7 of 1914 and Law Rev. Ord., 1924.

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