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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 9TH JANUARY, 1886.
A BILL
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Treasurer, &c. may, on Death of Persons la Civil Service intitled to Sams under 3500, direct
hereo without Production of Letters of Administra. tion. [31 and 32 V. c. 90, . 1']
Indemnity. [31 and 32 V. c. 90, s. 2.]
Short Title. [33 and 34 V. c. 35, §.1.]
Renta, &c. to accrue from day to day, and be Apportionable In respect of time.
(Ibid. 8. 2.]
Apportioned part of rent, &c. to be payable when the next entire portion becomes due. [[bid, &.3.]
Persons shall
have the same remedies for recovering Apportioned parts as for entire portions. [[bid. & 4.}
Proviss as to rents reserved in certain
cases.
An Ordinance to empower the Colonial Treasurer to pay otherwise than to Executors or Administrators small Sums due on account of Pay or Allowances
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to Persons deceased.
E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as
follows:-
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1. On the Death of any Person or Persons to whom respectively any Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding five hundred Dollars may be payable by a Public Depart- ment within the Colony in respect of Civil Pay or Allowances or Annuities granted either under the Authority of the Government of the Colony or of the Imperial Parlia- ment, it shall be lawful for the Treasurer on being satisfied of the Expediency of dispensing with Probate or Letters of Administration, to authorize the Payment of such Sum or Sums to such Person or Persons as the Treasurer may consider entitled thereto, without requiring the production of Probate or of Letters of Administration, payment to be made under such Regulations as the Treasurer may direct.
2. Any Payment made in pursuance of this Ordinance shall be valid against all Persons whatever, and all Persons acting under its Provisions shall be absolutely discharged from all Liability in respect of any Monies duly paid or applied by them under this Ordinance.
A BILL
ENTITLED
An Ordinance for the better Apportionment of Rents and other Periodical Payments.
BE
E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as "The Apportionment Ordinance, 188
2. From and after the commencement of this Ordinance all Rents, Annuities, Dividends, and other periodical Payments in the nature of income (whether reserved or made payable uuder an instrument in writing or otherwise shall, like interest on mouey lent, be considered as accruing from day to day, and shall be apportionable in respect of time accordingly.
3. The apportioned part of any such Rent, Annuity, Dividend, or other Payment shall be payable or recoverable in the case of a continuing Rent, Annuity, or other such Payment, when the entire portion of which such appor- tioned part shall form part, shall become due and payable, and not before; and in the case of a Rent, Annuity, or other such Payment determined by re-entry, death, or otherwise, when the next entire portion of the same would have been payable if the same had not so determined, and not before. 4. All persons and their respective Executors, Administra- tors, and Assigns, and also the Executors, Aministrators, and Assigns respectively of persons whose interests deter- mine with their own deaths, shall have such or the same remedies at law and in equity for recovering such appor- tioned parts as aforesaid when payable (allowing propor- tionate parts of all just allowances) as they respectively would have had for recovering such entire portions as aforesaid if entitled thereto respectively; provided that persons liable to pay Rents reserved out of or charged on Lands or other Hereditaments of any tenure, and the same Lands or other Hereditaments, shall not be resorted to for any such apportioned part forming part of an entire or conti- nuing Rent as aforesaid specifically, but the entire or conti- nuing Rent, including such apportioned part, shall be recovered and received by the person who, if the Rent had not been apportionable under this Ordinance, or otherwise, would have been entitled to such entire or continuing Rent, and such apportioned part shall be recoverable from such person by the Executors or other parties entitled under this Ordinance to the same by suit or action.