JESUIT ORDER (PORTUGUESE PROVINCE) INCORPORATION ORDINANCE, 1929

JESUIT ORDER (PORTUGUESE PROVINCE) INCORPORATION ORDINANCE, 1929

No. 27 of 1929.

An Ordinance to provide for the incorporation of the Procurator
in Hong Kong of the Portuguese Province of the jesuit
Order.
[6th December, 1929.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Jesuit Order
(Portuguese Province) Incorporation Ordinance, 1929.





2. The Procurator for the time being in the Colony of the
Portuguese Province of the Jesuit Order shall be a corporation
sole (hereinafter called the corporation) and shall have the
name of ' The Procurator in Hong Kong qf the Portuguese
Province 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-seciion (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 govern-
ment, 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 cach case.

(3) The corporation shall further have power by deed tinder
its seat 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.

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 Portuguese Province 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.

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





5.-(1) Whenever any person is appointed to the office of
Procurator in Hong Kong of the Portuguese Province 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 under 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
adect 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 or tinder them.

No. 28 of 1929, incorporated in No. 18 of 1927.

No. 29 of 1929, repealed by No. 36 of 1931.

No. 30 of 1929, repealed by No. 7 of 1935.

No. 31 of 1929. repealed by No. 39 of 1932.

No. 32 of 1929, repealed by No. 2 of 1933.

No. 33 of 1929, incorporated in No. 10 of 1900.

No. 34 of 1929, repealed by NO. 39 of 1935.

As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939, Supp. Sched.
[Originally No. 27 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. [1.1.32.] [1.1.36.] [1.7.33.] [17.2.33.] [13.9.35.]

[Originally No. 27 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. [1.1.32.] [1.1.36.] [1.7.33.] [17.2.33.] [13.9.35.]

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