BISHOP OF VICTORIA INCORPORATION ORDINANCE, 1925

BISHOP OF VICTORIA INCORPORATION ORDINANCE, 1925

No. 8 of 1924, repealed by Law Revision
Ordinance, 1939, Supp. Sched.

No. 9 of 1924, repealed by No. 31 Of 1935.

No. 10 of 1924, iepealed by No. 40 of 1932.

No. 11 of 1924, incorporated in No. 11 Of 1922.

No. 12 of 1924, repealed by No. 18 Of 1936.

No. 13 of 1924, incorporated in NO. 25 Of 1923.

1925.
No. 1 of 1925, incorporated in No. 8 of 1921.

No.2 of 1925, incorporated in No. 1 of 1873.

No. 3 of 1925, incorporated in No. 19 Of 1912.

No. 4 of 1925.

An Ordinance to provide for the incorporation of the Bishop
of Victoria in the Colony of Hong Kong.

[6th. March, 1925.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the. Bishop of Victoria
Incorporation Ordinance, 1925.





2. The Right Reverend Charles Ridley Duppuy, Bishop
of Victoria in the Colony of Hong Kong, and his successors
in the said office of Bishop, shall be a corporation sole, herein-
after called the corporation, and shall have the name of 'The
Bishop of Victoria, Hong Kong ', and in that name shall have
perpetual succession, and shall and may sue and be sued in all
courts in the Colony and shall and may have and use an official
seal.

3.-(1) The corporation shall have power to acquire, accept
leases of, purchase, take, hold and enjoy any lands, building s,
messuages or tenements of what nature or kind soever and
wheresoever situated, and also to invest moneys upon mortgage
of any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements, pr upon the
mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities of any
government, municipality, corporation or company, and also to
purchase, acquire and possess vessels and other goods and
chattels of what nature and kind soever.

(2) The corporation. shall further have power by deed under
its seal to grant, selt, convey, assign, surrender, exchange,
partition, yield up, mortgage, demise, reassign, transfer or other-
wise dispose of any lands, buildings, messuages, tenements,
mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities,
vessels, or.other goods and chattels, which are for the time being
vested in or belonging to the corporation', upon such terms as to
the corporation may seem fit.

4. The legal estate in any property whatsoever, transferred
to the corporation in any manner whatsoever, shall, in the event
of the death of the ' Bishop of Victoria for the time being or in
the event of his ceasing to hold office as such Bishop, pass to his
successor in such office when appointed.

5. All deeds and other instruments requiring the corporate
seal of the corporation Shall also be signed by the Bishop of
Victoria for the time being.

6. Any instrument sealed with the corporate seal of the
corporation shall not by reason only of the use of such seal be
rendered liable to a higher stamp duty 'than if the corporation
sole were a 'natural person.

7. The piece or parcel of ground registered in the Land
Office as Inland Lot No. 76, now vested in the Most Honourable
and Right Reverend Randall Thomas by Divine Providence
Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of all England, together
with all rights, easements and appurtenances belonging or
appertaining thereto or therewith usually held, occupied and
enjoyed, is hereby transferred to and vested in the corporation,
for the unexpired residue of the term of years created by the,
Crown lease thereof, subject to the payment of the rent and the
performance of the covenants and conditions reserved by and
contained in the Crown lease of the same, and subject to a
declaration of. trust given to His Excellency the Governor, dated
the 1st day of September, 1923, and registered in the Land
Office by Memorial No. 8798, freed and discharged as to the
Archbishop from all liability under or by virtue of the said lease
and declaration of trust or either of them.

8. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed to
affect the rights of His Majesty the King, his heirs or successors,
or the rights, of any body politic or corporate or of any other
person except such as are mentioned in this Ordinance and those
claiming by, from ot under them.
[23.8.35.] [1.1.33.] [1.10.36.] [Originally No. 4 of 1925.] Short title. Incorporation. Powers of corporation. Property transferred to corporation to pass to successors. Execution of documents. Stamp duty. Vesting of certain property. Saving of rights of the Crown and of certain other rights.

[23.8.35.] [1.1.33.] [1.10.36.] [Originally No. 4 of 1925.] Short title. Incorporation. Powers of corporation. Property transferred to corporation to pass to successors. Execution of documents. Stamp duty. Vesting of certain property. Saving of rights of the Crown and of certain other rights.

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