PONTIFICAL FOREIGN MISSIONS INSTITUTE INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

PONTIFICAL FOREIGN MISSIONS INSTITUTE INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

LAWS OF HONG KONG

PONTIFICAL FOREIGN MISSIONS INSTITUTE

INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 1041





CHAPTER 1041.

PONTIFICAL FOREIGN MISSIONS INSTITUTE
INCORPORATION.

To provide for the incorporation of the Procurator in Hong Kong of
the Pontifical Foreign Missions Institute.

[1st September. 1933.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Pontifical Foreign Missions
Institute Incorporation Ordinance.

2. The Procurator for the time being in the Colony of Hong Kong of
the Pontifical Foreign Missions Institute shall be a corporation sole.
hereinafter called the corporation. and shall have the name of 'The
Procurator in Hong Kong of the Pontifical Foreign Missions
Institute% 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 wheresoever 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. deben-
tures, stocks, funds. shares or securities. or vessels or other goods
and c 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 Pontifical Foreign
Missions Institute, 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 person is appointed to the office of Procurator in
Hong Kong of the Pontifical Foreign Missions Institute 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 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.
Originally 18 of 1933. (Cap. 307, 1950.) Short title. Incorporation. Power of corporation. Property transferred to corporation to pass to successors. Appointment of Procurator. Execution of documents. Saving.

Originally 18 of 1933. (Cap. 307, 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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