THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 18,
HONG KONG.
No. 41 of 1936.
I assent.
L.S.
A. CALDECOTT,
Governor.
1936.
879
16th September, 1936.
An Ordinance to provide for the incorporation of the Superioress in Hong Kong of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Precious Blood.
[16th September, 1936.]
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 Sisters of the Short title. Precious Blood Order Incorporation Ordinance, 1936.
Superioress
2. The Superioress for the time being in the Colony of Incorpora Hong Kong of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Precious tion of the Blood shall be a body corporate (hereinafter called the in Hong corporation) and shall have the name of "The Superioress of Kong of the the Sisters of the Precious Blood" and in that name shall have tion of the perpetual succession and shall and may sue and be sued in all Sisters of courts in the Colony and shall and may have and use a common Blood. seal.
Congrega-
the Precious
of the
3. (1) Subject to the provisions of subsection (2), the Power corporation shall have power to acquire, accept leases of, Corporation, purchase, take, hold and enjoy any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements of what nature or kind so ever and wheresoever situate, and also to invest moneys upon mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements, or upon mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities of any govern- ment, municipality, corporation, company or person, and also to purchase acquire and possess 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, exchange, partition, yield up, mortgage, demise, reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings,