SISTERS OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD ORDER INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

SISTERS OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD ORDER INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 311.

SISTERS OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD ORDER
INCORPORATION.

To provide for the incorporation of the Superioress in Hong
Kong of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Precious
Blood.
[16th September, 1936.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Sisters of the
Precious Blood Order Incorporation Ordinance.

2. The Superioress for the time being in the Colony of
Hong Kong of the Congregation of the Sisters of the
Precious Blood shall be a body corporate, hereinafter called
the corporation, and shall have the name of 'The Superioress
of the Sisters of the Preciotts Blood' 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,
meeeuages or tenements of what nature or kind soever and
wheresoever situate, and also to invest moneys upon mort-
gage of any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements, or
upon mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or
securities of any government, municipality, corporation,
company or person, and also to purchase acquire and possess
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 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, inortgage, demise, reassign,
transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings,
messuages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds,
shares or securities, 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. (1) When any, person is appointed to the office of
the Superioress in the Colony of the said Congregation such
person shall, within three weeks after her appointment or
within such further time as may be allowed by the Governor,
furnish to the Governor satisfactory evidence of her appoint-
ment.

(2) A notification in the Gazette under the hand of the
Colonial Secretary thal such evidence has been furnished to
the Governor by such person shall be conclusive evidence of
such appointment. [5

5.All deeds and other instruments requiring the seal
of the corporation shall be scaled in the presence of the person
who is for the time being Superioress in this Colony of the
said Congregation or of her attorney duly authorized and
such signing shall bc taken as sufficient evidence of the due
scaling 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
Superioress or her allorney. [6

6. 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 my other persons except such as are mentioned in this
Ordinance and claiming by, from or under them. [7
41 of 1936. Short title. Incorporation of the Superioress in Hong Kong of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Precious Blood. Powers of corporation. Appointment of Superioress. Execution of documents. Saving.

41 of 1936. Short title. Incorporation of the Superioress in Hong Kong of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Precious Blood. Powers of corporation. Appointment of Superioress. Execution of documents. Saving.

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