THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JANUARY 29, 1915.
HONGKONG.
No. 2 of 1915.
An Ordinance to remove doubts as to the power of the Governor to appoint Deputy Official Receivers and as to the validity of the acts of persons appointed to be Deputy Official Receivers or to act as Deputy Official Re- ceivers or attached to the office of the Official Receiver before the commencement of this Ordinance.
I assent to this Ordinance.
LS
F. H. MAY,
Governor.
[29th January, 1915.]
BE 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 Bankruptcy Short title. Ordinance, 1915, and shall be read and construed as one with the Bankruptcy Ordinance, 1891.
2.-(1.) The Governor may appoint such person as he Appoint thinks fit to be a Deputy Official Receiver of debtors ment and estates under the Bankruptcy Ordinance, 1891, and. may powers of remove such person from such office.
(2.) Every Deputy Official Receiver shall have all the powers conferred on the Official Receiver by the Bank- ruptey Ordinance, 1891, or by any Ordinance amending or substituted for the same.
(3.) Every Deputy Official Receiver shall act under the general authority and direction of the Official Receiver for the time being, or, if there be no Official Receiver for the time being, under the general authority and direction of the Governor, and shall also be an officer of the Court.
Deputy Official Receivers.
times of
3. The Governor shall be deemed to have had at all Declaration times the power to appoint any person to be Deputy as to the Official Receiver or to act as Deputy Official Receiver, power at all and to attach any person for duty to the office of the Governor Official Receiver, and all acts whatsoever of any person so to appoint appointed to be Deputy Official Receiver or to act as Deputy Official Deputy Official Receiver, or so attached for duty to the office of the Official Receiver, done during the period of and as to Receivers, such appointment or while so attached, shall be deemed validity of to be as valid in all respects as if this Ordinance had acts of been in force at the time of his being so appointed or persons attached as the case may be and as if such person had before com-
appointed been appointed a Deputy Official Receiver in pursuance of mencement section of this Ordinance.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 28th day of January, 1915.
of Ordinance.
M. J. BREEN,
Clerk of Councils.
Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 29th day of January, 1915.
CLAUD SEVERN,
Colonial Secretary.
51