(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 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.
Governor may designate public officers. 22. The Governor by notice in the Gazette may designate public officers for the purposes of this Part.
PART VI.
Miscellaneous.
Penalty for removing, etc. records. 23. Any person who wilfully removes, defaces, alters or destroys any notice, certificate, index, or other document kept or filed by the Secretary for Home Affairs or the Registrar pursuant to or for the purposes of this Ordinance shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine of one thousand dollars and to imprisonment for six months.
Power to make regulations. 24. The Governor may make regulations for the better carrying out of the purposes and provisions of this Ordinance and in particular may make regulations—
- (a) as to all matters of procedure under this Ordinance; and
- (b) prescribing the forms to be used under this Ordinance
Repeal of Cap. 178. 25. The Chinese Marriage Preservation Ordinance is repealed.
Amendment of Matrimonial Causes Ordinance (Cap. 179.) and Marriage Ordinance. (Cap. 181.) 26. (1) The Matrimonial Causes Ordinance is amended—
- (a) in section 2, by deleting paragraph (a) of the definition of “monogamous marriage” and substituting the following—
- “(a) if it took place in Hong Kong—
- (i) celebrated or contracted in accordance with the provisions of the (Cap. 181.)Marriage Ordinance
- (ii) a modern marriage validated by section 8 of the Marriage Reform Ordinance 1970 and registered under Part IV of that Ordinance; or”
- “(a) if it took place in Hong Kong—
- (b) in section 3—
- (i) by deleting "or" at the end of paragraph (a) and
