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20. The parties to an agreement or memorandum for the dissolution of a marriage signed under and in accordance with section 19 shall, within 14 days from the date of signature or such longer period as the designated public officer before whom the parties appeared under section 17 may for special reasons in any particular case permit, register, either personally or through their duly authorized agent, particulars of the agreement or memorandum for dissolution of marriage with the designated public officer before whom the parties appeared under section 17; and that officer shall endorse on the agreement or memorandum a record of registration under this section.
21. (1) The Secretary for Home Affairs shall maintain a register for the registration of dissolutions of marriage effected under section 19.
(2) A designated public officer with whom a dissolution of marriage is registered under section 20 shall send to the Secretary for Home Affairs once in each month, or more often if so directed by the Secretary for Home Affairs, particulars of all such dissolutions as registered by him, and the Secretary for Home Affairs shall cause such particulars to be entered in the register and preserved for record at his office.
22. The Governor by notice in the Gazette may designate public officers for the purposes of this Part.
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Registration of memorandum for dissolution of marriage.
Register of dissolutions of marriage.
Home Affairs. L.N. 262 of 1981.
Governor may designate public officers.
PART VA
VALIDATION OF DISSOLUTION IN Hong Kong OF CERTAIN MARRIAGES CELEBRATED IN China
22A. (1) This section applies to a marriage celebrated in China after 4 May 1931 but before 1 May 1950 under and in accordance with the law of China in force when the marriage was celebrated.
(2) The purported dissolution in Hong Kong, at any time before 7 October 1971, of a marriage to which this section applies by the mutual consent of the parties to the marriage signified by the signature of each of the parties, in the presence of 2 other persons who have also signed as attesting witnesses, to an agreement or memorandum in writing which sets forth unequivocally the final and complete dissolution of the marriage shall be valid for all purposes and shall be deemed to have been so valid since the execution of the agreement or memorandum, if at the date of the agreement or memorandum-
(a) both parties were domiciled in Hong Kong; or
(b) either of the parties had a substantial connexion with Hong Kong.
Validation of dissolution of certain Chinese marriages.
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20. The parties to an agreement or memorandum for the dissolution of a marriage signed under and in accordance with section 19 shall, within 14 days from the date of signature or such longer period as the designated public officer before whom the parties appeared under section 17 may for special reasons in any particular case permit, register, either personally or through their duly authorized agent, particulars of the agreement or memorandum for dissolution of marriage with the designated public officer before whom the parties appeared under section 17; and that officer shall endorse on the agreement or memorandum a record of registration under this section.
21. (1) The Secretary for Home-Affairs shall maintain a register for the registration of dissolutions of marriage effected under section 19.
(2) A designated public officer with whom a dissolution of marriage is registered under section 20 shall send to the Secretary for Home Affairs once in each month, or more often if so directed by the Secretary for Home Affairs particulars of all such dissolutions a registered by him and the Secretary for Home Affairs shall cause such particulars to be entered in the register and preserved for record at his office.
22. The Governor by notice in the Gazette may designate public officers for the purposes of this Part.
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Registration of memorandum for dissolution of
marriage.
Register of dissolutions of marriage.
Home Affairs. L.N. 262 of ipff.
Governor may designate public officers.
PART VA
VALIDATION OF DISSOLUTION IN Hong Kong of CERTAIN MARRIAGES CELEBRATED IN China
22A. (1) This section applies to a marriage celebrated in China after 4 May 1931 but before I May 1950 under and in accordance with the law of China in force when the marriage was celebrated.
(2) The purported dissolution in Hong Kong, at any time before 7 October 1971, of a marriage to which this section applies by the mutual consent of the parties to the marriage signified by the signature of each of the parties, in the presence of 2 other persons who have also signed as attesting witnesses, to an agreement or memorandum in writing which sets forth unequivocally the final and complete dissolution of the marriage shall be valid for all purposes and shall be deemed to have been so valid since the execution of the agreement or memorandum, if at the date of the agreement or memorandum-
(a) both parties were domiciled in Hong Kong; or
(b) either of the parties had a substantial connexion with
Hong Kong.
Validation of dissolution of certain Chinese marriages.
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