LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

LAWS OF HONG KONG

LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY INCORPORATION
ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 1033





CHAPTER 1033.

LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY INCORPORATION.

To provide for the incorporation of the Senior Missionary in the
Colony of the London Missionary Society.

[31st October, 1891.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the London Missionary Society
incorporation Ordinance.

(Amended, 5 of 1924, s. 6)

2. The holder of the appointment of Senior Missionary in Hong
Kong of the London Missionary Society. having placed in the hands of
the Governor satisfactory proof of his appointment shall be a body
corporate, hereinafter called the said corporation, and shall have the
name of 'The Senior Missionary in Hong Kong of the London
Missionary Society', and by that name shall have perpetual succession,
and shall and may sue and be sued in all courts, 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 shaft have fun 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 m the Colony or upon the mortgages or debentures,
stocks, 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, stocks and
securities. goods and chattels, vested in the said corporation, on such
terms as to the said corporation may seem fit:

Provided that due notice of appointment as such Senior Missionary
in Hong Kong, 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; 1 of 1912, Schedule, and
12 of 1912, Schedule)

3. All deeds, documents. and other instruments requiring the seal
of the said corporation shall be scaled with the seal of the said
corporation in the presence of the said Senior Missionary or his
attorney duly authorized, and shall also be signed by him





or his attorney, and such signing shall be and be taken as sufficient
evidence of the due scaling of such deeds, documents, and other
instruments.

(Amended, 50 of 1911; 51 of 1911; 1 of 1912, Schedule, and
2 of 1912, Schedule)

4. 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.

(Replaced, 37 of 1950, Schedule)
Originally 19 of 1891. (Cap. 296, 1950.) 50 of 1911. 51 of 1911. 1 of 1912. 2 of 1912. 5 of 1924. 37 of 1950. Short title. Incorporation of the Senior Missionary in the Colony of the London Missionary Society. Use of seal. Saving.

Originally 19 of 1891. (Cap. 296, 1950.) 50 of 1911. 51 of 1911. 1 of 1912. 2 of 1912. 5 of 1924. 37 of 1950. Short title. Incorporation of the Senior Missionary in the Colony of the London Missionary Society. Use of seal. Saving.

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