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No. 15 of 1930.
COLONIAL TREASURER INCORPORATION,
In certain cases, where upon the death of any person in the service of the Government, the legal estate or any interest in such property has passed or passes on such death to the personal representative of such person, it shall be lawful for the Governor at any time to declare such legal estate or interest vested in the corporation and thereupon such legal estate or interest shall vest accordingly without any conveyance, assignment or transfer.
(2) In like manner where at any time the legal estate or any interest in any property of any nature whatsoever is held or possessed for and on behalf of the said Government by any person who, having held office in the Colony as a Governor or as a Government officer, has vacated his office otherwise than by death, it shall be lawful for the Governor at any time to declare such legal estate or interest vested in the corporation and thereupon such legal estate or interest shall vest accordingly without any conveyance, assignment or transfer.
(3) A certificate under the hand of the Colonial Secretary shall be conclusive evidence for all purposes whatsoever as to the interest of the Government of this Colony, as to any such death or vacating of office, as to the making by the Governor of any such declaration and as to the vesting of the legal estate or interest in the property therein mentioned in the corporation.
[Originally No. 16 of 1930. Amended by No. 25 of 1937. Law Rev. Ord., 1939.]
# Short title. Interpretation. [cf. 35 & 36 Vict. c. 93, s. 5.]
No. 16 of 1930. An Ordinance to amend the law relating to pawnbrokers.
[17th October, 1930.]
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Pawnbrokers Ordinance, 1930.
2. In this Ordinance—
(a) "Month" means a Chinese lunar month;
* As amended by No. 25 of 1930 [5.12.30]. Pawnbrokers are, in respect of business carried on by them in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance, exempted from the Moneylenders Ordinance, 1911: see No. 16 of 1911, s. 6 (1).
† The forms, scale of fees and list of special rates formerly contained in the Schedules to this Ordinance have been transferred to the corresponding volume of the Regulations of Hong Kong. As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939, Supp. Sched.