JESUIT ORDER (ENGLISH ASSISTANCY) INCORPORATION ORDINANCE, 1927

JESUIT ORDER (ENGLISH ASSISTANCY) INCORPORATION ORDINANCE, 1927

No. 18 of 1927.

An Ordinance to Provide for the incorporation of the Procurator in
Hong Kong of the English Assistancy of the Jesuit Order.

[4th November, 1927.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Jesuit Order (English
Assistancy) Incorporation Ordinance, 1927.

2. The Procurator for the time being in the Colony of the English
Assistancy of the Jesuit Order shall be a corporation sole (hereinafter called
the corporation) and shall have the name of 'The Procurator In Hong Kong
of the English Assistancy of the Jesuit Order ' 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 a common seal.

3.-(1) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (2) 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, 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 government,
municipality, corporation, company or person and also to purchase, acquire
and possess vessels and other goods and chattels of what nature and kind
soever.

(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of sub-section (1) the corporation
shall not acquire any immovable property in the Colony unless it has
previously obtained the special consent of the Governor in Council in each
case.

(3) 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
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.

As amended by No. 28 of 1929 [6.12.29]. As
amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939, Supp. Sched.





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 Procurator for the time being in Hong Kong
of the English Assistancy of the Jesuit Order or in the event of
his ceasing to hold office as such Procurator, pass to his successor
in such Office when appointed.

5.-(1) Whenever any person is appointed to the office of
Procurator in Hong Kong of the English Assistancy of the
Jesuit Order such person shall, within three weeks after his
appointment or within such further time as may be allowed by
the Governor, furnish to the Governor satisfactory evidence of
his appointment.

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

6. All deeds and other instruments requiring the seal of the
corporation shall be sealed in the presence of the said Procurator
or his attorney and shall be signed by him or his attorney and
such signing shall be taken as sufficient evidence of the due
sealing of such deeds and other instruments and all deeds,
instruments and other documents and writings requiring the
signature of the corporation shall be signed by such Procurator
or his attorney.

7. 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, front or under them.

No. 19 of 1927, incorporated in No. 7 Of 1913.

No. 20 of 1927, repealed. by No. 41 Of 1935.

As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939, Supp. Sched.
[Originally No. 18 of 1927. No. 28 of 1929. Law Rev. Ord., 1939.] Short title. Incorporation. Powers of corporation. Property transferred to corporation to pass to successors. Appointment of Procurator. Execution of documents. Saving of rights of the Crown and of certain other rights. [4.10.35.]

[Originally No. 18 of 1927. No. 28 of 1929. Law Rev. Ord., 1939.] Short title. Incorporation. Powers of corporation. Property transferred to corporation to pass to successors. Appointment of Procurator. Execution of documents. Saving of rights of the Crown and of certain other rights. [4.10.35.]

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