THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 18TH APRIL, 1896.
(2) Nothing in this Ordinance shall prevent the owner of goods from recovering the goods from an agent or his trustee in bankruptcy at any time before the sale or pledge thereof, or shall prevent the owner of goods pledged by au agent from having the right to redeem the goods at auy time before the sale thereof, on satisfying the claim for which the goods were pledged, and paying to the agent, if by him required, any money in respect of which the agent would by law be entitled to retain the goods or the docu- ments of title thereto, or any of them, by way of lien as against the owner, or from recovering from any person with whom the goods have been pledged any balance of money remaining in his hands as the produce of the sale of the goods after deducting the amount of his lien.
(3) Nothing in this Ordinance shall prevent the owner of goods sold by an agent from recovering from the buyer the price agreed to be paid for the same, or any part of that price, subject to any right of set off on the part of the buyer against the agent.
13. The provisions of this Ordinance shall be construed in amplification and not in derogation of the powers exer- ciscable by an agent independently of this Ordinance.
14. The enactments mentioned in the schedule to this Ordinance are hereby repealed, so far as they are applicable to the Colony, as from the commencement of this Ordinance, but this repeal shall not affect any right acquired or liability insurred before the commencement of this Ordinance under any enactment hereby repealed.
15. This Ordinance shall commctice and come into opera- tion on the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six.
16. This Ordinance may be cited as The Factors Ordi- nance, 1596.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 2nd day of April, 1896.
F. J. BADELEY, Acting Clerk of Councils.
Assented to by Ilis Excellency the Governor, the 16th day of April, 1896.
J. II. STEWART LOCKHART,
Colonial Secretary.
Saving for common law powers of
agent
Repeals
Commonce- ment.
Short title.
SCHEDULE.
ENACTMENTS REPEALED.
Session and Chapter.!
4 Geo. 4. c. 83.
6 Geo, 1. c. 94.
5 & 6 Vict, c. 39...
Title.
Extent of Repcal.
An Act for the better pro- | The whole Act,
tection of the property of merchants and others who many hereafter enter into contracts or agreements in relation to goods, wares, or merchandises entrusted to factors or agents.
An Act to alter and amend The whole Art.
an Act for the better pro- tection of the property of merchants and others who may hereafter enter into contracts or agreements in relation to goods, wares, or merchandise entrusted to factors or agents.
An Act to amend the law The whole Act.
relating to advances boud
fide made to agents cntrus-
ted with goods.
Section 14.
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