Hong Kong Ordinances

MARRIED PERSONS STATUS ORDINANCE - SECT 4

Property of married women

(1) Subject to this Ordinance, all property which-

   (a)  immediately before the 20th day of March 1936 was the separate
        property of a married woman or held for her separate use in equity; or

   (b)  belonged or belongs at the time of her marriage to a woman married
        after that date; or

   (c)  after that date has been or is acquired by or devolved or devolves
        upon a married woman, shall belong to her in all respects as if she
        were unmarried and may be disposed of accordingly. [cf. 1935 c.30 s.2
        U.K.]

(2) No restriction upon anticipation or alienation attached, whether before or
after the commencement of this Ordinance, to the enjoyment of any property by
a woman which could not have been attached to the enjoyment of that property
by a man shall be of any effect. [cf. 1949 c.78 s.1(1) & (2) U.K.]