HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION ORDINANCE, 1901

HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION ORDINANCE, 1901

ORDINANCE No. 18 OF 1901.

Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Coporation

AN ORDINANCE to amend the Hongkong and Shanghai
Banking Corporation Ordinance, 1887, and to remove
any Doubts as to the Validity of any Matters done under it.

[12th October, 1901.]

WHEREAS by section 3 of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking
Coporation Ordinance, 1887, it was enacted that that Ordinance
should not come into operation unless and until the Officer
Administering the Government notified by Proclamation that it was
Her Majesty's pleasure not to disallow the same, and thereafter it
should come into operation upon such day as the Officer Administering
the Government should notify by the same or by any other Proclamation;
and whereas Her late Majesty's gracions confirmation and
allowance of the said Ordinance was received in this Colony on the
14th day of August, 1887; and whereas the said confirmation and
allowance was proclaimed by the Officer Administering the Government
on the 16th day of August, 1887, but no record can be found of any day
having been notified by any Proclamation as the day upon which the
said Ordinance should come into operation:

BE it therefore enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice
and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Hongkong and Shanghai
Banking Corporation Ordinance, 1901.

2. Section 3 of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
Ordinance, 1887, is hereby amended by deleting the words ' and
thereafter it shall come into operation upon such day as the Officer
Administering the Government shall notify by the same or any other
Proclamation'; and the said Ordinance shall deemed to have come
into operation upon the 16th day of August, 1887, which was the date
of the Proclamation notifying Her late Majesty's gracious confirmation
and allowance of the said Ordinance; and all acts, resolutions, or
proceedings done, passed, or taken, or purporting to have been done,
passed, or taken, under or by virtue of the said Ordinance shall be and
be deemed to have been as valid and effectual in all respects as if the said
Ordinance had come into operation on the said 16th day of August, 1887,
and as if the words, which are deleted by this Ordinance from section 3
of the said Ordinance had never been inserted in the said section.
A.D. 1901. Ordinance No. 25 of 1901.
Short title. Amendment of section 3 of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Ordinance, 1887. No. 5 of 1887.

A.D. 1901. Ordinance No. 25 of 1901.
Short title. Amendment of section 3 of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Ordinance, 1887. No. 5 of 1887.

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