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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 8TH MAY, 1886.
Short Title.
Application to Registrar
where Estate does not exceed $500. [36 & 37 V. c. 62, &. 1.) (52 39 V.
£.27.)
Proof of Iden- tity of Person applying
[36 & 37 T. c. 38, 8. 2.]
Registrar may refuse to proceed. [(Ibid. 1. 3.]
Power to frame Rules, &c.
[Ibid. n. 5.]
[lide see. 94, No. 12 of 1873]
Not to affect duty on adra!- uistration. [Idul. u. 6.]
LS
W. H. MARSH.
No. 10 or 1886.
An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hong- kong, with the advice of the Législative Council thereof, entitled An Ordinance for the Relief of Widows and Children of Intestates where the personal estate is of small value.
BE
عمر
[7th May, 1886.]
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 Widows and Children Relief Ordinance, 1886, and shall be read and construed as one with Ordinances No. 8 of 1860 agany Ordinance amending the same.
2. Where the whole estate and effects of any person dying intestate within the Colony shall not exceed in value the sum of $500 his widow or any one or more of his children or in the case of a widow so dying intestate as aforesaid her children, as the case may be, provided such widow or children respectively are resident within the Colony may apply to the Registrar of the Supreme Court and the said Registrar shall fill up the usual papers required by the Court in its Probate Jurisdiction to lead to a grant of Letters of Administration of the estate and effects of the said intestate and shall swear or declare the applicant and 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 exceeds 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.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 14th day of April, 1886.
ARATHOON SETH,
Clerk of Councils,.
Assented to by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, the 7th day of May, 1886.
Schedule.
190.
FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
SCHEDULE.
Where the whole estate at 1 effects of the intestate shall not exceed in 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.