IRISH PROVINCE OF THE ORDER OF FRANCISCANS MINOR INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

IRISH PROVINCE OF THE ORDER OF FRANCISCANS MINOR INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

LAWS OF HONG KONG

IRISH PROVINCE OF THE ORDER OF FRANCISCANS

MINOR INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 1028





CHAPTER 1028.

IRISH PROVINCE OF THE ORDER OF FRANCISCANS
MINOR INCORPORATION.

To provide for the incorporation of the Procurator in Hong Kong
of the Irish Province of the Order of Franciscans Minor.

[24th December. 1937.1

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Irish Province of the Order of
Franciscans Minor Incorporation Ordinance.

2. The Procurator for the time being in the Colony of Hong Kong of
the Irish Province of the Order of Franciscans Minor shall be a
corporation sole, hereinafter called the corporation, and shall have the
name of 'The Procurator in Hong Kong of the Irish Province of the
Order of Franciscans Minor', 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) 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 wheresover situate, and
also to invest moneys 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) 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 property whatsoever transferred 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 Irish Province
of the Order of Franciscans Minor, or in the event of his ceasing to hold
office as such Procurator, pass to his successor in such office when
appointed.

5. (1) When any other person is appointed to the office of
Procurator in Hong Kong of the Irish Province of the Order of
Franciscans Minor 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 sealed 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 Her Majesty the Queen, Her 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 28 of 1937. (Cap. 291, 1950.) Short title. Incorporation. Power of corporation. Property transferred to corporation to pass to successors. Appointment of Procurator. Execution of documents. Saving.

Originally 28 of 1937. (Cap. 291, 1950.) Short title. Incorporation. Power of corporation. Property transferred to corporation to pass to successors. Appointment of Procurator. Execution of documents. Saving.

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