THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 6TH MAY, 1893.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 156.
The following Despatch, with its enclosure, is published.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 5th May, 1893.
G. T. M. O'BRIEN,
Colonial Secretary.
HONGKONG.
337
DOWNING STREET,
25th March, 1893.
GENERAL.
SIR,
With reference to my despatch, General, of the 13th of February, I have the honour to transmit to you, for publication in the Colony under your Government an Order of Her Majesty in Council applying the provisions of "the Colonial Probates Act 1892" to Hongkong.
I also enclose copies of the Rules and Orders which have been made for the guidance of the Registrar of the Principal Probate Registry, Somerset House, in carrying out the provisions of the Act, and I have to request that notices corresponding to those mentioned in Rules 101 and 102 may be sent to that Registry.
Rules regulating the procedure under the Act, in the Scotch and Irish Courts have been prepared, but copies have not yet been received in this Department.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient,
Governor
SIR W. ROBINSON, K.C.M.G.,
&c.,
&c.,
&e.
humble servant,
RIPON.
AT THE COURT AT WINDSOR,
The 15th day of March, 1893. PRESENT,
THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY
LORD PRESIDENT
LORD CHAMBERLAIN
MR. BRYCE.
WHEREAS by the first section of the Colonial Probates Act, 1892, it is enacted as follows :—
"Her Majesty the Queen may, on being satisfied that the legislature of any British possession has made adequate provision for the recognition in that possession of probates and letters of administration granted by the courts of the United Kingdom, direct by Order in Council that this Act shall, subject to any exceptions and modifications specified in the Order, apply to that possession, and thereupon, while the Order is in force, this Act shall apply accordingly."
And whereas Her Majesty is satisfied that the Legislatures of the British Possessions herein-after mentioned have made adequate provision for the recognition in those Possessions of Probates and Letters of Administration granted by the Courts of the United Kingdom.
NOW, THEREFORE, Her Majesty, by virtue and in exercise of the powers by the above-recited Act in Her Majesty vested, is pleased by and with the advice of Her Most Honourable Privy Council to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:
The Colonial Probates Act, 1892, shall apply to the British Possessions hereunder mentioned :-
Hong Kong,
Western Australia, and
The Province of Ontario in the Dominion of Canada.
And the Most Honourable the Marquess of Ripon Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies is to give the necessary directions herein accordingly.
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C. L. PEEL.
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