THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 17, 1907.
A BILL
ENTITLED
An Ordinance to amend the Probates Ordinance,
1897.
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 Probates Ordiu- Short title. ance Amendment Ordinance, 1907, and shall be read and construed as one with the Probates Ordinance, 1897, here- inafter called the Principal Ordinance,
2. The Principal Ordinance is hereby amended by the Probates Or- omission from section 66 of the words "and in Scotland dinance,
1897, amend- means the Sheriff Court of the County of Edinburgh.”
eri.
3. This Ordinance shall be deemed to have been in force Retrospec- in this Colony as from the 15th May, 1897, being the date five action. on which the Principal Ordinance came into operation.
Letters of
4. It is hereby declared that all Probates or Letters of Validation of Administration granted by a Court of Probate in the United Probates and Kingdom and duly sealed with the Seal of the Supreme Administra- Court of this Colony under the provision of the United tion sealed Kingdom Probates Ordinance, 1892, shall notwithstanding under United anything in such Ordinance contained be and be deemed to Kingdom have been as from the date of such sealing of the like force Probates Or- and effect in this Colony as if the words "and in Scotland 1802. means the Sheriff Court of the County of Edinburgh” bad never been contained in section 4 of that Ordinance.
dinance,
Objects and Reasons.
The object of this Bill is to recognise as "Courts of Pro- bate in the United Kingdom" for the purposes of Section 67 of the Probates Ordinance, 1897, all Courts in Scotland having Jurisdiction in matters of Probate. The Ordinance further provides for the validity of sealings by the Supreme Court of the Colony nuder the United Kingdom Probates Ordinance, 1892, of all Probates or Letters of Administration granted by the Scottish Courts of Probates including the Sheriff's Court of the Conuity of Edinburgh.
H. H. J. GOMPERTZ, Attorney General,
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