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ORDINANCES Nos. 12 AND 13 OF 1886.
Bills of Sale.
Sale of Land by Auction.
Order for memorandum of satisfaction of bills of sale..
[Ibid, r. 27.]
Rules where attesting witness is a solicitor. [Practice rules, England, 1884, r.14]
2. Where this consent cannot be obtained, the Registrar may on application by summons, and on hearing the person entitled to the benefit of the bill of sale, or on affidavit of service of the summons on that person, and in either case on proof to the satisfaction of the Registrar that the debt (if any) for which the bill of sale was made has been satisfied or discharged order a memorandum of satisfaction to be written upon a registered copy thereof.
3. If the attesting witness and deponent is a solicitor, and described as such, the entry of the satisfaction will be directed by the Registrar (the papers being otherwise correct) as of course; but under special circumstances the Registrar may accept any other deponent if satisfied that he is a proper person to attest and verify the signature and consent.
[In force from 12th July, 1886, under proclamation of the 10th July, 1886.]
Short title. [30 & 31 V. c. 48, § 11]
Commencement of Ordinance. [Ibid. § 2.]
Interpretation of terms. [Ibid. § 3.]
Rule respecting sales without reserve. [Ibid. § 4.]
No. 13 of 1886.
An Ordinance entitled An Ordinance to amend the Law as to Sales of Land by Public Auction.
WHEREAS it is desirable to assimilate the law of the Colony to the law of England relating to the sale of land by public auction; Be 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 Sale of Land by Auction Ordinance, 1886."
2. This Ordinance shall commence and take effect on a day to be proclaimed by the Governor.
3. Auctioneer shall mean any person selling by public auction any land, whether in lots or otherwise:
Land shall mean any interest in any messuages, lands, or tenements of whatever tenure within the Colony.
4. The particulars or conditions of sale by auction of any land shall state whether such land will be sold without reserve, or subject to a reserved price, or whether a right to bid is reserved. If it is stated that such land will be sold without reserve, or to that effect, then it shall not