ALIENS (RIGHTS OF PROPERTY) ORDINANCE

ALIENS (RIGHTS OF PROPERTY) ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 185.

ALIENS (RIGHTS OF PROPERTY)

To remove doubts regarding the right of aliens to hold and
transfe,r Property within this Colony.

[17th November, 1853.]

WHEREAS doubts have arisen regarding the right of aliens to
hold and transfer property within this Colony:

BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the Governor of Hong Kong
with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof in
pursuance of the Act of Parliament io and ii Victoria,
chapter 83, intituled 'An Act for the Naturalization of
Aliens', and the power inherent in the said Governor
in Council as follows:

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Aliens (Rights
of Property) Ordinance.

2. It shall be lawful for any alien, and he is hereby
declared entitled, by grant, conveyance, lease, assignment,
or bequest or otherwise, to take, acquire, hold, and possess
any lands or other immovable roperty situated in this

Colony and the said lands or other property as aforesaid to
sell, transfer, assign, or bequeath to any other person as
fully and effectually to all intents and purposes, and with
the same rights, remedies, exemptions, and privileges, as
if he were a natural-born subject of His Majesty residing
in this Colony.

3. Every such grant, conveyance, lease, assignment,
bequest, sale, transfer, or other act heretofore made or done
by or with any such alien shall be deemed in law as valid
and effectual as if it had been made or done by or with
any natural-born British subject.
Originally 2 of 1853. Fraser. 1 of 1853. Short title. Right of alien to hold and transfer immovable property. Validation of grants, etc. by aliens.

Originally 2 of 1853. Fraser. 1 of 1853. Short title. Right of alien to hold and transfer immovable property. Validation of grants, etc. by aliens.

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