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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER, 6, 1935.
HONG KONG.
No. 53 of 1935
I assent.
W. T. SOUTHORN,
L.S.
Officer Administering the Government.
Short title.
Incorpora- tion.
Powers of
6th December, 1935.
An Ordinance to provide for the incorporation of the Adminis- .trator in Hong Kong of the Catholic Mission of Macao.
[6th December, 1935.]
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Catholic Mission of Macao Incorporation Ordinance, 1935.
2. The Very Reverend Dom José da Costa Nunes, Bishop of Macao, and his successors in the said office of Bishop of Macao shall be a corporation sole (hereinafter called "the Corporation') and shall have the name of "The Administrator in Hong Kong of the Catholic; Mission of Macao" 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) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (2), the Corporation. 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 situated, and also to invest moneys upon mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements or upon the mort- gages, 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) Notwithstanding the provisions of sub-section (1) the Corporation shall not acquire any immovable property in the Colony unless it shall have previously obtained the special consent of the Governor in Council in each case.
(3) The Corporation shall further have power by deed under its seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, ex- change, partition, yield up, mortgage, demise, reassign, trans- fer or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings, messuages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, share or securities, or vessels or other goods and chattels, which are for the time being vested in or belonging to the Corporation, upon such terms as to the Corporation may seem fit.
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