PETITES SOEURS DES PAUVRES, ST. PERN, BRETAGNE INCORPORATION ORDINANCE, 1925

PETITES SOEURS DES PAUVRES, ST. PERN, BRETAGNE INCORPORATION ORDINANCE, 1925

No. 6 of 1925.
An Ordinance to Provide for the incorporation of the Mother
Superior in this Colony of the Society of the ' Pelites
Soeurs des Pauvres, St. Pern, Bretagne ', commonly
known as The Little Sisters of the Poor.

[22nd May, 1925.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the ' Petites Soeurs des
Pauvres, St. Pern, Bretagne' Incorporation Ordinance, 1925.

2. The Mother Superior for the time being in this Colony
of the Society of the Petites Soeurs des Pauvres, St. Pern,
Bretagne, 'shall be a corporation sole (hereinafter called the
corporation) and shall have the name of ' The Mother Superior





of the Petites Soeurs des Pauvres, St. Pern, Bretagne ' and by
that name shall and may sue and be sued in all courts in this
Colony and shall and may have and use a common seal.

3. (1) Subject to the licence of the Governor having been
previously obtained in each case, the corporation shall have
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 situated in this Colony,
and also to invest moneys upon mortgage of any lands,
buildings, messuages or tenements, or upon the mortgages,
debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities of any govern-
ment,, municipality, corporation or company, and also to
purchase, acquire and possess goods and chattels of what nature
and kind soever.

(2) The corporation. shall further have power by deed under
its seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, exchange,
partition, yield up, mortgage, demise, reassign, transfer or
otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings, messuages, tenements,
mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities, or
other goods and chattels whatsoever,' 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 Mother Superior for the time being or in
the event of her ceasing to hold office as such Mother Superior,
pass to her successor in such office when appointed.

5. All deeds and -other instruments requiring the seal of
the corporation shall be sealed in the presence of the person
who is for the time being Mother Superior in this Colony of
the corporation or of her attorney duly authorized and such
deeds'and instruments and all other. documents, instruments ahd
writings requiring the signature of the corporation shall be
signed by surh Mother Superior or her attorney.

6.-(1) Whenever any person. is appointed to the office of
Mother Superior in this Colony of the corporation, such person

As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939, Supp. Sched.

shall, within three weeks after her appointment or within such
further time as may be allowed by the Governor, furnish to the
Governor satisfactory evidence of her appointment.

(2) A notification in the Gazette under the hand of the
Colonial Secretary that such evidence has been furnished to the
Governorby such person shall be conclusive evidence 'of such
appointment.

7. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed to
affect the rights of His Majesty the King his heirs and 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 or under them.

[Originally No. 6 of 1925. Law Rev. Ord., 1939.] Short title. Incorporation of the Mother Superior in Hong Kong of the Society of the Petites Soeurs des Pauvres, St. Pern, Bretaagne. Powers of corporation. Property transferred to corporation to pass to successors. Execution of doucments. Appointment of Mother Superior. Saving of rights of the Crown and others.

[Originally No. 6 of 1925. Law Rev. Ord., 1939.] Short title. Incorporation of the Mother Superior in Hong Kong of the Society of the Petites Soeurs des Pauvres, St. Pern, Bretaagne. Powers of corporation. Property transferred to corporation to pass to successors. Execution of doucments. Appointment of Mother Superior. Saving of rights of the Crown and others.

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