JESUIT ORDER (PORTUGUESE PROVINCE) INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

JESUIT ORDER (PORTUGUESE PROVINCE) INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 293.

JESUIT ORDER (PORTUGUESE PROVINCE)
INCORPORATION.

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 inay be cited as the Jesuit Order
(Portuguese Province) Incorporation Ordinance.

2. The Procurator for the time being in the Colony, of
the Portuguese Province of the Jesuit Order shall be a cor-
poration sole, hereinafter called the corporation, and shall
have the name of 'The Procurator in Hong Kong of 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 subsection (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 money upon inort-
gage of any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements, or
upon the mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or
securities of any government, municipality, corporation, com-
pany 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 subsection (i),
the corporation shall not acquire any immovable property 'in
the Colony unless it has previously obtained the special con-
sent 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, ex-
change, 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 belong-
ing to the corporation, upon such terms as 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 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.

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 scaled 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 persons except such as are mentioned in this
Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under them.
Originally 27 of 1929. Fraser. 27 of 1929. Short title. Incorporation. Powers of corporation. Property transferred to corporation to pass to successors. Appointment of Procurator. Execution of documents. Saving.

Originally 27 of 1929. Fraser. 27 of 1929. Short title. Incorporation. Powers of corporation. Property transferred to corporation to pass to successors. Appointment of Procurator. Execution of documents. Saving.

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