Hong Kong Ordinances

MISSIONS ETRANGERES INCORPORATION ORDINANCE - SECT 2

Incorporation of Procureur General in Hong Kong of Society of Missions Etrangeres

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 33 of 1999 s. 3

The Procureur General in Hong Kong of the Society of the Missions Etrangeres
shall be a body corporate, 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 perpetual succession, and shall and
may sue and be sued in all courts in Hong Kong, 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 Hong Kong, and also to invest moneys on mortgage of any
lands, buildings, messuages, or tenements in Hong Kong, or on the mortgages,
debentures, stocks, funds, shares, or securities of any corporation or company
carrying on business or having an office in Hong Kong, 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, 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 Chief Executive, shall be given in the Gazette. (Amended 50 of 1911; 1 of
1912 Schedule; 33 of 1999 s. 3)