Short title.
Incorpora- tion.
Powers of
1986
A BILL
INTITULED
[No. 30-28.8.35.-2.]
An Ordinance to provide for the incorporation of the Adminis-
trator in Hong Kong of the Catholic Mission of Macao.
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 Don 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.
Property
transferred
to corpora. tion to pass to successors.
Appointment
Adminis-
trator.
(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.
4. The legal estate in any property whatsoever transferred to the Corporation in any manner whatsoever shall in the event of the death of the Administrator in Hong Kong of the Catholic Mission of Macao for the time being, or in the event of his ceasing to hold office as such Administrator pass to his successor in such office when appointed.
5.-(a) Until the appointment of such successor as afore- of temporary said the Vicar Capitular of the Diocese of Macao appointed by the Chapter of the Diocese of Macao or by the Sub-Bishop of Goa shall on his furnishing to the Governor satisfactory evidence of his appointment be entitled to exercise on behalf of the Corporation all the powers and authorities hereby con- ferred.