1944
ORDINANCE No. 20 OF 1885.
Administration of Passengers' Estates.
47. The following special provisions shall regulate the administration of the estates of passengers who die at sea in the course of a voyage to Hongkong on board of any ship which afterwards arrives in Hongkong.
1. Where any passenger has died on board of any vessel in the course of his voyage to Hongkong, the master of the vessel in which such passenger has died shall, immediately upon the arrival of the vessel in Hongkong, hand over to the Harbour Master all the goods and effects of such passenger then on board of such vessel.
2. Thereupon the Harbour Master shall take possession of such goods and effects and
(a.) If he thinks that their value is more than $100, he shall hand them over to the Official Administrator, to whom he shall also furnish in writing all such information as he may have been able to obtain about the deceased passenger and as he may consider likely to be useful for the due administration of the estate.
(b.) If he thinks that their value is not more than $100, he shall, in such manner as he may in his discretion consider convenient and just, distribute them amongst the persons who appear to him, in his discretion, to be entitled to them, or if he can find no such persons within one month of the date when the said goods and effects come into his hands, then he shall sell them and pay the proceeds of the sale into the Treasury to a special account to be there kept for the purpose.
3. For the purposes of this section, the expression "voyage of a passenger to Hongkong" means the voyage of a passenger to Hongkong terminates at Hongkong as the port of destination of such passenger.
4. At any time within 12 months of the date when the proceeds of any estate have been paid into the Treasury under this section, any person entitled to the same or to any portion thereof may apply to the Harbour Master for the same, and at the expiration of the said 12 months, the Harbour Master may apply to the Treasurer