THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 25, 1911.
HONGKONG,
No. 33 of 1911.
An Ordinance to amend the Probates Ordinance,
1897.
F. D. LUGARD,
LS
Governor.
[24th August, 1911.]
Br it 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 Probates Short ntle. Amendment Ordinance, 1911.
2. The Probates Ordinance, 1897, is hereby amended Amends as follows :
(a). In the definition of → Estate in section 2 thereof by the addition after the word "estate of the words "or property and after the words "of such person of the words “and includes property passing on the death of such person”.
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th.) After the definition of → Matters and causes Testamentary in section 2 thereof by the insertion of the following definition :
Next of kin "
includes persons
entitled in their own right to property passing on the death of any person,"
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 10th
day of August, 1911.
Ordinance No. 2 of 1897.
C. CLEMENTI,
Clerk of Councils.
Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 24th
Jay of August. 1911,
WARREN BARNES,
Colonial Secretary-
HONGKONG.
No. 34 or 1911.
An Ordinance to further amend the Stamp Or- dinance, 1901, and the law relating to Stamps and Stamp Duty,
ST
F. D. LUGARD,
Gorermor.
[24th August, 1911.)
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the sadvice and consent of the Legislative Couuril thereof, as follows:
1. This Ordinance may be eited as "the Stamp Ament Short thile ment Ordinance, 1911," and shail be read as one with the and con- Stamp Ordinance, 1901, (hereinafter called “the Principal struction Ordinance"), and the Ordinances amending the same and this Ordinance and the said Ordinances may be cited fogether as "the Stamp Ordinances, 1901-1911.
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