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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 18TH MARCH, 1886.
Proof of Iden- tity of Person
applying
[36 & 37 V.
c. 52, B. 2.]
Registrar may refuse to proceed. [Ibid. s. 3.]
Power to frame Rules, JzC
[Ibid. s. 5.]
[Vide nec. 24, No. 12 of 1873.]
Not to affect duty on admi- nistration. [/rd. 9. 6.]
Schedule.
£20,
attest the execution of the Administration Bond required according to the practice of the Court in its Probate Juris- dition and he shall also in due course make out and seal the Letters of Administration of the estate and effects of the said intestate and deliver them to the party so applying for the same without payment of any fee save as is provided by this Ordinance.
3. The said Registrar may require such proof as he may think sufficient to establish the identity and relationship of the applicant.
4. If the said Registrar has reason to believe that the whole estate and effects of which the intestate died possessed exceds in value $500, he shall refuse to proceed with the application until he is satisfied as to the actual value thereof. 5. Any rules and orders and tables of fees requisite for carrying this Ordinance into operation shall be framed and may, from time to time, be altered by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court but the total amount to be charged to applicants shall not in any one case exceed the sums men- tioned in the Schedule to this Ordinance and no such rules and orders or tables of fees or alterations thereof shall have any force or effect until the same shall have been approved of by the Legislative Council of the Colony and published in the Gazette.
6. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to affect any duty now payable on Letters of Administration.
SCHEDULE.
Where the whole estate and effects of the intestate shall not exceed în value $100, the sum of $1: and where the whole estate and effects shall exceed in value $100, the sum of $1; and the further sum of 20 cents for every $50 or fraction of $50 by which the value shall exceed $100.
Short Title.
Commence. ment.
[41 & 42 V. c. 31, 8. 2 & 3.1
Repeal of Ordinance No. 10 of 1864. [41 & 42 V. c. 31, 8. 23.]
Interpretation of Terms.
[41 & 42 V. c. 31, s. 41
A BILL
ENTITLED
An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the Law for preventing Frauds upon Creditors by Secret Bills of Sale of Personal Chattels.
Be advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:
E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the
1. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as The Bills of Sale Ordinance, 1886.
2. This Ordinance shall commence and come into opera- tion on a day to be named by the Governor, and shall apply to every Bill of Sale executed after such commencement (whether the same be absolute, or subject or not subject to any trust), whereby the holder or grantee has power, either with or without notice, and either immediately or at any future time, to seize or take possession of any personal chattels within the Colony comprised in or made subject to such Bill of Sale.
3. From and after the commencement of this Ordinance the Bills of Sale Ordinance, No. 10 of 1864, shall be repeal, ed: Provided that (except as is herein expressly mentioned with respect to construction and with respect to renewal of registration) nothing in this Ordinance shall affect any Bill of Sale executed before the commencement of this Ordinance, and as regards Bills of Sale so executed the Ordinances hereby repealed shall continue in force.
Any renewal after the commencement of this Ordinance of the registration of a Bill of Sale executed before the commencement of this Ordinance, and registered under the Ordinance hereby repealed, shall be made under this Ordinance in the same manner as the renewal of a registra- tion made under this Ordinance.
4. In this Ordinance, the following words and expressions shall have the meanings in this Section assigned to them respectively, unless there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction; that is to say:-
The expression Bill of Sale shall include Bills of Sale, assignments, transfers, declarations of trust without transfer, inventories of goods with receipt thereto attached, or receipts for purchase moneys of goods, and other assurances of personal chattels, and also powers of attorney, authorities, or licenses to take