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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 6, 1929.
HONG KONG.
No. 27 of 1929.
I assent.
L. S.
C. CLEMENTI,
Governor.
Short title.
Incorpora- tion.
Powers of corporation.
6th December, 1929.
An Ordinance to provide for the incorporation of the Procurator in Hong Kong of the Portuguese Province of the Jesuit Örder.
[6th December, 1929.]
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 Jesuit Order (Portuguese Province) Incorporation Ordinance, 1929.
2. The Procurator for the time being in the Colony of the Portuguese Province of the Jesuit Order shall be a corporation sole (hereinafter called the corporation) and shall have the name of “ The Procurator in Hong Kong of the Portuguese Province of the Jesuit Order" 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 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, 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 unde, its scal to graut, sell, convey, assigu, 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 vessels or other goods and chattels, which are for the time being vested in or belong- ing to the corporation, upon such terms as to the corpora- tion may seem fit.
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