DOMINICAN MISSIONS ORDINANCE

DOMINICAN MISSIONS ORDINANCE

LAWS OF HONG KONG

DOMINICAN MISSIONS ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 1018





CHAPTER 1018.

DOMINICAN MISSIONS.

To provide for the incorporation of the Procurator in the Colony

for the Dominican Missions in the Far East.

[7th May, 1886.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Dominican Missions
Ordinance.

(Amended, 5 of 1924, s. 6, and 43 of 1912, Schedule)

2. The procurator in the Colony for the Dominican Missions having
placed in the hands of the Governor satisfactory proof of his
appointment shall be a body corporate, hereinafter called the
corporation, and shall have the name of 'The Procurator in Hong Kong
for the Dominican Missions in the Far East', and by 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,
and the said seal may break, change, alter, and make anew as to the said
corporation may seem fit; and the said corporation shall have full 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 situate in the Colony, and also to invest moneys on
mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages, or tenements in the
Colony or on the mortgages or debentures, stock, funds, shares, or
securities of any corporation or company carrying on business or
having an office in the Colony, and also to purchase and acquire all
manner of goods and chattels whatsoever., and the said corporation is
hereby further empowered by deed under its seal, to grant, sell, convey,
assign, surrender and yield up, mortgage, demise, reassign, transfer, or
otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings, messuages, and tenements,
mortgages, debentures, stock, funds, and securities, goods and
chattels, that may be vested in the said corporation, upon such terms as
to the said corporation may seem fit:

Provided that due notice of appointment as Procurator in the
Colony, and of the proof thereof having been placed in the hands of the
Governor, shall be given in the Gazette.

(Amended, 50 of 1911; 51 of 1911; 62 of 1911, Schedule, and
63 of 1911, Schedule)

3. All deeds and other instruments requiring the seal of the said
corporation shall be sealed in the presence of the said Procurator or his
attorney duly authorized, and shall also be signed by him.

(Amended, 50 of 1911; 51 of 1911; 62 of 1911, Schedule, and
63 of 1911, Schedule)





4. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed to
affect the rights of Her Majesty the Queen, Her Heirs or Suc-
cessors, 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.
(Replaced, 37 of 1950, Schedule)
Originally 14 of 1886. (Cap. 281, 1950.) 50 of 1911. 51 of 1911. 62 of 1911. 63 of 1911. 43 of 1912. 5 of 1924. 37 of 1950. Short title. Incorporation of Procurator in the Colony for Dominican Missions in the Far East. Use of seal of corporation. Saving.

Originally 14 of 1886. (Cap. 281, 1950.) 50 of 1911. 51 of 1911. 62 of 1911. 63 of 1911. 43 of 1912. 5 of 1924. 37 of 1950. Short title. Incorporation of Procurator in the Colony for Dominican Missions in the Far East. Use of seal of corporation. Saving.

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