### Matrimonial Proceedings and Property Ordinance 《婚姻法律程序與財產條例》

21. Abolition of right to claim restitution of conjugal rights
No person shall after the commencement of this Ordinance be entitled to petition the court for restitution of conjugal rights.
[cf. 1970 c. 45 s. 20 U.K.]

22. Order for maintenance of party to marriage under Matrimonial Causes Ordinance to cease to have effect on remarriage of that party
(1) An order made, or deemed to have been made, under section 28(1)(a) or (b) of the Matrimonial Causes Ordinance (Cap. 179) shall, notwithstanding anything in the order, cease to have effect on the remarriage after the commencement of this Ordinance of the person in whose favour the order was made, except in relation to any arrears due under it on the date of such remarriage.
(2) An order for the payment of alimony made, or deemed to have been made, under section 32 of the Matrimonial Causes Ordinance (Cap. 179), and an order made, or deemed to have been made, under section 33 or 34 of that Ordinance, shall, if the marriage of the parties to the proceedings in which the order was made was or is subsequently dissolved or annulled but the order continues in force, cease to have effect on the remarriage after the commencement of this Ordinance of the party in whose favour the order was made, except in relation to any arrears due under it on the date of such remarriage.
[cf. 1970 c. 45 s. 21 U.K.]

### Matrimonial Proceedings and Property Ordinance 《婚姻法律程序與財產條例》

23. Orders for repayment in certain cases of sums paid after cessation of order by reason of remarriage
(1) Where—
(a) an order to which this section applies has ceased to have effect by reason of the remarriage of the person entitled to payments under the order, and
(b) the person liable to make payments under the order or his or her personal representatives made payments in accordance with it in respect of a period after the date of such remarriage in the mistaken belief that the order was still subsisting,
no proceedings in respect of a cause of action arising out of the circumstances mentioned in paragraphs (a) and (b) shall be maintainable by the person so liable or his or her personal representatives against the person so entitled or her or his personal representatives; but on an application made under this section the court may exercise the powers conferred on it by subsection (2). (Amended L.N. 145 of 1992)
(2) The court may order the respondent to an application made under this section to pay to the applicant a sum equal to the amount of the payments made in respect of the period mentioned in subsection (1)(b) or, if it appears to the court that it would be unjust to make that order, it may either order the respondent to pay to the applicant such lesser sum as it thinks fit or dismiss the application.
(3) Subsections (2) and (4) of section 13 shall apply to an application made under this section and to an order made on such application as they apply to an application made under that section and to an order made on the last mentioned application. (Amended 79 of 1981 s. 7)
(4) No officer of a court to which any payments under an order to which this section applies are required to be made shall be liable for any act done by him in pursuance of the order after the date on which that order ceased to have effect by reason of the remarriage of the person entitled to payments under it, if, but only if, the act was one which he would have been under a duty to do had the order not ceased to have effect as aforesaid and the act was done before notice in writing of the fact that the person so entitled had remarried was given to him by or on behalf of that person, the person liable to make payments under the order or the personal representatives of either of those persons.
(5) This section applies to an order made by virtue of section 4(1)(a) or (b) or 8(6)(a) or (b) and to any such order as is referred to in subsection (1) or (2) of section 22.
[cf. 1970 c. 45 s. 22 U.K.]

### Matrimonial Proceedings and Property Ordinance 《婚姻法律程序與財產條例》

24. Settlement, etc., made in compliance with order under section 6 may be avoided on bankruptcy of settler
The fact that a settlement or transfer of property had to be made in order to comply with an order of the court under section 6 shall not prevent that settlement or transfer from being a settlement of property to which section 49 of the Bankruptcy Ordinance (Cap. 6) applies.
(Amended 76 of 1996 s. 79)[cf. 1970 c. 45 s. 23 U.K.]

25. Commencement of proceedings for financial provision orders, etc.
(1) Where a petition or joint application for divorce or a petition for nullity of marriage or judicial separation has been presented or made, then, subject to subsection (2), proceedings under section 3, 4, 5, 6 or 6A may be begun, subject to and in accordance with rules of court, at any time after the presentation of the petition or the making of the application; but—
(a) no order under section 4, 6 or 6A shall be made unless a decree nisi of divorce or of nullity of marriage or a decree of judicial separation, as the case may be, has been granted;
(b) without prejudice to the power to give a direction under section 26, no such order made on or after granting a decree nisi of divorce or of nullity of marriage, and no settlement made in pursuance of such an order, shall take effect unless the decree has been made absolute.
(2) Rules of court may provide, in such cases as may be prescribed by the rules—
(a) that applications for ancillary relief shall be made in the petition, joint application or answer; and
(b) that applications for ancillary relief which are not so made, or are not made until after the expiration of such period following the presentation of the petition, making of the joint application or filing of the answer as may be so prescribed, shall be made only with the leave of the court. 
(3) In subsection (2) ancillary relief (附屬濟助) means relief under any of the provisions of sections 3, 4, 5, 6 and 6A.
(Amended 29 of 1995 s. 20; 69 of 1997 s. 33)[cf. 1970 c. 45 s. 24 U.K.]