SISTERS OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD ORDER INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

SISTERS OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD ORDER INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

LAWS OF HONG KONG

SISTERS OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD ORDER

INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 1045





CHAPTER 1045.

SISTERS OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD ORDER
INCORPORATION.

TO provide for the incorporation of the Superioress in Hong Kong
of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Precious Blood.

[16th September. 1936.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Sisters of the Precious Blood
Order Incorporation Ordinance,

2. The Superioress for the time being in the Colony of Hong Kong
of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Precious Blood shall be a body
corporate, hereinafter called the corporation, and shall have the name of
'The Superioress of the Sisters of the Precious Blood', 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 mortgages. debentures. stocks. funds.
shares or securities of any government. municipality, corporation,
company or person, and also to purchase. acquire and possess 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 other goods andchattels, which are for the time
being vested in or belonging to the corporation, upon such terms as to
the corporation may seem fit.

4. (1) When any person is appointed to the office of the
Superioress in the Colony of the said Congregation such person shall,
within three weeks after her appointment or within such further time as
may be allowed by the Governor. furnish to the Governor satisfactory
evidence of her 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.





5. All deeds and other instruments requiring the seal of the
corporation shall be sealed in the presence of the person who is for the
time being Superioress in the Colony of the said Congregation or of her
attorney duly authorized 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 Superioress or her
attorney.

6. 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 41 of 1936. (Cap. 311, 1950.) Short title. Incorporation of the Superioress in Hong Kong of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Precious Blood. Powers of corporation. Appointment of Superioress. Execution of documents. Saving.

Originally 41 of 1936. (Cap. 311, 1950.) Short title. Incorporation of the Superioress in Hong Kong of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Precious Blood. Powers of corporation. Appointment of Superioress. Execution of documents. Saving.

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