BOY SCOUTS ASSOCIATION ORDINANCE

BOY SCOUTS ASSOCIATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 267.

BISHOP OF VICTORIA INCORPORATION.

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.

2. The Bishop of Victoria in the Colony of Hong
Kong, and his successors in the said office of Bishop, shall
be a corporation sole, hereinafter 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,
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 tene-
ments, or upon the mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds,
shares or securities of any government, municipality, cor-
poration 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, 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, 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, trans-
ferred 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 scaled 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 corpora-
tion 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 Honour-
able and Right Reverend Randall Thomas by Divine
Providence Archbishop of Canterbury and 'Primate of all
England, together with all rights, easements and appurten-
ances 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 freed and discharged.as to the Archbishop from
all liability tinder or by virture of the said lease.

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 persons except such as are mentioned in this
Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under them.
Originally 4 of 1925. Fraser. 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.

Originally 4 of 1925. Fraser. 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.

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