21. Doubts as to the validity of those statutes were removed by the Colonial Laws Validity Act 1865. 22. Under colonial laws political activists had to register for permission to form social organizations and hold demonstrations. 23. These colonial laws had been reformed to bring them into line with Hong Kong's 1991 Bill of Rights. 24. Moreover, the codification customs into colonial law gave legal sanction to patriarchal practices on marriage, succession and adoption. 25. Dutch colonial law , from the start, recognized the plurality of Indonesian ( then Dutch East Indies ) society. 26. In the early 19th century, however, colonial laws severely restricted these and other dances, which were considered immoral. 27. The British colonial law allows prisoners to be held indefinitely without charge, often without access to lawyers or family. 28. The first was based on the repeal of the application of the Colonial Laws Validity Act to South Africa. 29. A High Court judge recently struck down the colonial law that denied non-indigenous villagers right to vote for their representatives. 30. Maori also allege the colonial law has been used to snatch land for roads, towns, public works and even railways.
