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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 31, 1907.
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
No. 365.-His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government has given his assent, in the name and on behalf of His Majesty the KING, to the following Ordinances passed by the Legislative Council:-
Ordinance No. 1 of 1907.--An Ordinance to amend the Probates Ordinance, 1897.
Ordinance No. 2 of 1907-An Ordinance for the incorporation of the Hongkong College of Medicine.
Short title.
Probates Or- dinance, 1897, amend- exd.
Retrosper tive action.
Validation of
Letters of
Administra- tion senled
HONGKONG.
No. 1 or 1907.
An Ordinance to amend the Probates Ordinance,
1897.
LS
F. H. MAY,
Officer Administering the Gore ument.
[28th May, 1907.]
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- ance Amendment Ordinance, 1907, and shall be read and coustrued as one with the Probates Ordinance, 1897, here- inafter called the Principal Ordinance.
2. The Principal Ordinance is hereby amended by the omission from section 66 of the words “and in Scotland means the Sheriff Court of the County of Edinburgh,”
3. This Ordinance shall be deemed to have been in force in this Colony as from the 15th May, 1897, being the date on which the Principal Ordinance came into operation.
4. It is hereby declared that all Probates or Letters of Probates and Administration granted by a Court of Probate in the United Kingdom and duly sealed with the Seal of the Supreme Court of this Colony under the provision of the United Kingdom Probates Ordinance, 1892, shall notwithstanding anything in such Ordinance contained be and be deemed to have been as from the date of such sealing of the like force and effect in this Colony as if the words “and in Scotland meaus the Sheriff Court of the County of Edinburgh” had never been contained in section 4 of that Ordinance,
under United Kingdom Probates Or dinance, IS92.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 23rd day of May, 1907.
A. G. M. FLETCHER,
Clerk of Councils.
Assented to by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, the 28th day of May, 1907.
A. M. THOMSON,
Colonial Secretary.