1803
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 13тH MARCH, 1886.
Form of Bill
of Sale,
[45 & 46 V. c.
13, s. 9.]
Bill of Sale under $150 to
be void.
[45 & 46 V. c. 43, a. 12.]
Chattels not to be removed or sold.
[[bid, s. 13.]
Bill of Sale not
to protect chattels
»gainst taxes and rates. [lbid, 8. 14.]
Form of Register. [41 & 42 V. c. 31, s. 12.3
Rectification of Register.
(41 & 42 V. c. 31, 5. 14.3
(2.) If the grantor shall become a bankrupt or suffer the said goods or any of them to be distrained for rent, rates or taxes;
(3.) If the grantor shall fraudulently either remove or suffer the said goods or any of them to be removed from the premises;
(4.) If the grantor shall not without reasonable excuse upon demand in writing by the grantee produce to him his last receipts for rent, rates and taxes; (5.) If execution shall have been levied against the goods of the grantor under any judgment at law; Provided that the grantor may within five days from the seizure or taking possession of any chattels on account of any of the above mentioned causes apply to the Court or to a Judge thereof in Chambers, and such Court or Judge if satisfied that by payment of money or otherwise the said cause of seizure no longer exists, may restrain the grantee from removing or selling the said chattels or may make such other order as may seem just.
16. A Bill of Sale made or given by way of security for the payment of money by the grantor thereof shall be void unless made in accordance with the form in the Schedule B hereto.
17. Every Bill of Sale made or given in consideration of any sum under one hundred and fifty Dollars shall be void.
18. All personal chattels seized or of which possession is taken after the commencement of this Ordinance under or by virtue of any Bill of Sale (whether registered before or after the commencement of this Ordinance) shall remain on the premises where they were so seized or so taken possession of and shall not be removed or sold until after the expiration of five clear days from the day they were so seized or so taken possession of.
19. A Bill of Sale to which this Ordinance applies shall be no protection in respect of personal chattels included in such Bill of Sale which but for such Bill of Sale would have been liable to distress under a warrant or order for the ' recovery of taxes and rates.
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20. The Registrar shall keep a book (in this Ordinance called "the register") for the purposes of this Ordinance, and shall, upon the filing of any Bill of Sale or copy under this Ordinance, enter therein in the form set forth in the Schedule C hereto, or in any other prescribed form, the name, residence, and occupation of the person by whom the Bill was made or given (or in case the same was made or given by any person under or in the execution of process, then the name, residence, and occupation of the person against whom such process was issued, and also the name of the person or persons to whom or in whose favour the Bill was given), and the other particulars shown in the said Schedule or to be prescribed under this Ordinance, and shall number all such Bills registered in each year con- secutively, according to the respective dates of their regis-
tration.
Upon the registration of any affidavit of renewal, the like entry shall be made, with the addition of the date and number of the last previous entry relating to the same Bill, and the Bill of Sale or copy originally filed shall be there- upon marked with the number affixed to such affidavit of renewal.
The Registrar shall also keep an index of the names of the grantors of registered Bills of Sale with reference to entries in the register of the Bills of Sale given by each such grantor.
corres-
Such index shall be arranged in divisions ponding with the letters of the alphabet, so that all grantors whose surnames begin with the same letter (and no others) shall be comprised in one division, but the arrange- ment within each such division need not be strictly alpha- betical.
21. Any Judge of the Supreme Court, on being satisfied that the omission to register a Bill of Sale or an affidavit of renewal thereof within the time prescribed by this Ordi- nance, or the omission or misstatement of the name, residence, or occupation of any person, was accidental or due to inadvertence, may in his discretion order such omission or misstatement to be rectified by the insertion in the register of the true name, residence, or occupation, or by extending the time for such registration on such terms and conditions (if any)as to security, notice by advertise- ment or otherwise, or as to any other matter, as he thinks fit to direct.