Hong Kong Ordinances

LAW AMENDMENT AND REFORM (CONSOLIDATION) ORDINANCE - SECT 25

Gifts between engaged couples

(1) A party to an agreement to marry who makes a gift of property to the other
party to the agreement on the condition (express or implied) that it shall be
returned if the agreement is terminated shall not be prevented from recovering
the property by reason only of his having terminated the agreement.

(2) The gift of an engagement ring shall be presumed to be an absolute gift;
this presumption may be rebutted by proving that the ring was given on the
condition, express or implied, that it should be returned if the marriage did
not take place for any reason.

(35 of 1971 s. 4 incorporated) [cf. 1970 c. 33 s. 3 U.K.]