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Chapter 12: Legislation

DURING the year 1956 sixty-two Ordinances were enacted and reference to some of the more important of them is made in the ensuing paragraphs.

There was considerable activity in the field of charities and education. Six Ordinances were enacted incorporating new institutions, namely, the Hong Kong Society for the Blind by Ordinance No. 4, the Society for the Relief of Disabled Children by Ordinance No. 6, Institute of the Soeurs des Missions Etrangeres by Ordinance No. 9, St. John's College by Ordinance No. 20, Tsung Tsin Mission of Hong Kong by Ordinance No. 32, and the Hong Kong Tramways Educational Trust Fund by Ordinance No. 43.

Permanent and extensive provisions for the Colony's marine fish marketing system were introduced by the Marine Fish (Marketing) Ordinance, No. 28. The system of whole- sale marketing of marine fish had been developed along co-operative lines similar to the scheme in operation for the marketing of vegetables, for which provision was made in the Agricultural Products (Marketing) Ordinance, 1952.

The Colony's law relating to the distribution of German enemy property was brought into line with that prevailing in the United Kingdom by the enactment of the Distribution of Germany Property Ordinance, No. 34 and the Enemy Property Ordinance, No. 35, which was a validating

enactment.

The Colony's divorce law was extensively amended by the Divorce (Amendment) Ordinance, No. 44. The effect of this enactment was to modify the divorce law of Hong Kong to correspond more closely with the provisions of the United Kingdom Matrimonial Causes Act, 1950, the principal