MISSION ETRANGERES INCORPORATION ORDINANCE
Title
MISSION ETRANGERES INCORPORATION ORDINANCE
Description
LAWS OF HONG KONG
MISSIONS ETRANGERES INCORPORATION ORDINANCE
CHAPTER 1036
CHAPTER 1036.
MISSIONS ETRANGERES INCORPORATION.
To provide for the incorporation of the Procureur General in the
Colony of the Society of the Missions Etrangeres.
[28th March, 1890.1
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Missions Etrangeres
Incorporation Ordinance.
(Amended, 50 of 1911; 1 of 1912, Schedule, and 5 of 1924,
s.6)
2. The Procureur General in the Colony of the Society of
the Missions Etrangeres having placed in the hands of the
Governor satisfactory proof of appointment shall be a body cor-
porate, hereinafter called the corporation, and shall have the name
of 'The Procureur General in Hong Kong of the Missions
Etrangeres and by that name shall have 1 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, 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 what-
soever, 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, de-
bentures, stocks, funds, 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 Procureur General
and of the proof thereof having been placed in the hands of the
Governor, shall be given in the Gazette.
(Amended, 50 of 1911, and 1 of 1912, Schedule)
3. All deeds. documents, and other instruments requiring the seal
of the said corporation shall be so sealed in the presence of the said
Procureur General or his attorney. and shall also be signed by him or his
said attorney, and such signing shall be taken as sufficient evidence of
the due sealing 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 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 3 of 1890. (Cap. 299, 1950.) 50 of 1911. 51 of 1911. 1 of 1912. 2 of 1912. 5 of 1924. 37 of 1950. Short title. Incorporation of Procureur General in the Colony of Society of Missions Etrangeres. Use of seal. Saving.
Abstract
Originally 3 of 1890. (Cap. 299, 1950.) 50 of 1911. 51 of 1911. 1 of 1912. 2 of 1912. 5 of 1924. 37 of 1950. Short title. Incorporation of Procureur General in the Colony of Society of Missions Etrangeres. Use of seal. Saving.
Identifier
https://oelawhk.lib.hku.hk/items/show/3506
Edition
1964
Volume
v26
Subsequent Cap No.
1036
Number of Pages
3
Files
Collection
Historical Laws of Hong Kong Online
Citation
“MISSION ETRANGERES INCORPORATION ORDINANCE,” Historical Laws of Hong Kong Online, accessed February 28, 2025, https://oelawhk.lib.hku.hk/items/show/3506.