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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 10, 1928.
HONG KONG.
No. 3 OF 1928.
I assent.
L.S.
C. CLEMENTI, Governor.
Short title.
Incorporation of the Secretary
for Chinese Affairs.
10th April, 1928.
An Ordinance to provide for the incorporation
of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.
[10th April, 1928.]
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
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1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Secretary for Chinese Affairs Incorporation Ordinance, 1928.
2. The person for the time being performing the duties of the office of Secretary for Chinese Affairs shall be a corporation sole (hereinafter called the corporation), and shall have the name of The Secretary for Chinese Affairs Incorporated", and by that name shall and may sue and be sued in all courts in this Colony and shall and may have and use a common seal.
Powers of corporation.
Property and rights transferred
to vest or
3.-(1) The 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 mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities of any government, municipality, corporation or company, and also to purchase, acquire and possess goods and chattels of what nature and kind soever.
(2) The corporation shall further have power by deed under its seal to graut, sell, convey, assign, surrender, exchange, partition, yield up, mortgage, demise, reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings, messuages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities, or other goods and chattels whatsoever, which are for the time being vested in or belonging to the corporation upon such terms as to the corporation may seem fit.
4. Notwithstanding any change in the occupant of the corporation, whether on account of death, departure on leave, return from leave, temporary employment elsewhere, to corporation resumption of duties, new appointment, or other canse remain vested whatsoever, and notwithstanding the nature of the pro- in corporation perty or rights, all property and rights whatsoever, trans- ferred to the corporation, or to any occupant of the cor- poration as such, in any manner whatsoever, shall vest or remain vested in the corporation so as to be capable of being dealt with by the occupant of the corporation for the time being, and shall not vest in any occupant in his natural capacity.
and not to pass to
personal re- presentatives
of occupant.