Hong Kong Ordinances

LAW AMENDMENT AND REFORM (CONSOLIDATION) ORDINANCE - SECT 24

Property of engaged couples

(1) Where an agreement to marry is terminated, any rule of law relating to the
rights of husbands and wives in relation to property in which either or both
has or have a beneficial interest shall apply, in relation to any property in
which either or both of the parties to the agreement had a beneficial interest
while the agreement was in force, as it applies in relation to property in
which a husband or wife has a beneficial interest.

(2) Where an agreement to marry is terminated, sections 6 and 7 of the
Married Persons Status Ordinance ( Cap 182) (which sections confer power on a
judge to settle disputes between husband and wife about property) shall apply,
as if the parties were married, to any dispute between, or claim by, one of
them in relation to property in which either or both had a beneficial interest
while the agreement was in force; but an application made by virtue of this
section to the judge under the said sections shall be made within 3 years of
the termination of the agreement.

(35 of 1971 s. 4 incorporated) [cf. 1970 c. 33 s. 2 U.K.]