PONTIFICAL FOREIGN MISSIONS INSTITUTE INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

PONTIFICAL FOREIGN MISSIONS INSTITUTE INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 307.

PONTIFICAL FOREIGN MISSIONS INSTITUTE
INCORPORATION.

To provide for the incorporation of thePfocurator in Hong
Kong of the Pontifical Foreign Missions Institute.

[1st September, 1933.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Pontifical
Foreign Missions Institute Incorporation Ordinance.

2. The Procurator for the time being in the Colony,
of Hong Kong of the Pontifical Foreign Missions Institute
shall be a corporation sole, hereinafter called the corpora-
tion, and shall have the name of 'The Procurator in Hong
Kong of the Pontifical Foreign Missions Institute' 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 nioneys 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 subsection (1),
the corporation shall not acquire any immovable property
in the Colony unless it shall have 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.

4. The legal estate in any properly 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 Pontifical Foreign Missions
Institute, or in the event of his ceasing to hold office as
such Procurator, pass to his successor in such office when
appointed.

5. (I) When any person is appointed to the office
of Procurator in Hong Kong of the Pontifical Foreign
Missions Institute 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 satis-
factory 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 suffi-
cient 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 afTect 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.
18 of 1933. Short title. Incorporation. Power of corporation. [s. 3 cont.] Property transferred to corporation to pass to successors. Appointment of Procurator. Execution of documents. Saving.

18 of 1933. Short title. Incorporation. Power of corporation. [s. 3 cont.] Property transferred to corporation to pass to successors. Appointment of Procurator. Execution of documents. Saving.

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