DIOCESAN SCHOOL AND ORPHANAGE INCORPORATION ORDINANCE, 1892
Title
DIOCESAN SCHOOL AND ORPHANAGE INCORPORATION ORDINANCE, 1892
Description
No. 3 of 1892.
An Ordinance for the incorporation of the chairinan of the
Conimittee,of the Diocesan School and Orphanage.
[28th May, 1892.]
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Diocesan School and
Orphanage Incorporation Ordinance, 1892.
2. The Chairman of the Committee of the Diocesan School
and Orphanage shall be a body corporate, and shall have the
name of ' The Chairman of the Committee of the Diocesan
School and Orphanage ', and by that name shall have perpetual
succession, and shall and may sue and be sued in all courts,
and shall and may have and use ' a common seal, and the said
seal may break, change, alter, and make ' anew as to the said
corporation may seem fit, and the said corporation shall have
full power to acquire~ accept leases of, purchase, take, hold,
and enjoy any lands, buildings, messuages, or tenements of
what nature or kind soever and wheresoever situate in this
Colony, and also to invest moneys on mortgage of any lands,
buildings, messuages, or tenements in this Colony, or on the
mortgages or debentures, stocks, funds, shares, or securities of
any corporationor company carrying on business or having an
office in this Colony, and also to purchase and acquire all manner
of goods and chattels whatsoever, and * the said corporation is
hereby further empowered, by. deed under its seal, to grant,
sell, convey, assign, surrender and yield up, mortgage, demise,
re-assign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings,
messuages, and tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks,,funds,
and securitids, goods and chattels, vested in the said corporation
on such terms as to the said corporation may seem fit.
[s. 3, rep. No. 1. Of 1912.]
4. All deeds, documents, and other instruments requiring
the seal -of the said corporation shall be sealed therewith in the
presence of the Chairman of the Committee or hi ' s.attorney duly
authorized, and shall also be signed by him or his attorney duly
authorized, drid such signing shall be and be taken as sufficient
evidence of the due sealing of such deeds, documents, and other.
instruments.
5. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed to
affect the rights of His Majesty.
[Originally No. 10 of 1882.] Short title. Incorporation of Chairman of Committee of Diocesan School and Orphanage. Use of seal of corporation. Saving of rights of the Crown.
Abstract
[Originally No. 10 of 1882.] Short title. Incorporation of Chairman of Committee of Diocesan School and Orphanage. Use of seal of corporation. Saving of rights of the Crown.
Identifier
https://oelawhk.lib.hku.hk/items/show/1442
Edition
1937
Volume
v1
Subsequent Cap No.
1017
Cap / Ordinance No.
No. 3 of 1892
Number of Pages
2
Files
Collection
Historical Laws of Hong Kong Online
Citation
“DIOCESAN SCHOOL AND ORPHANAGE INCORPORATION ORDINANCE, 1892,” Historical Laws of Hong Kong Online, accessed April 29, 2025, https://oelawhk.lib.hku.hk/items/show/1442.