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HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
(a) the expression "bailiff or other officer" has been substituted for "sheriff, high bailiff or other officer", as there are no sheriffs or high bailiffs in Hong Kong,
(b) the words "except as provided by section 46 of the Bank- ruptcy Ordinance, 1931" have been substituted for the words "except as provided by the Bankruptcy Acts, 1883 and 1890." The Act of 1913 referred to sections 145 and 146 of the Act of 1883, and to section 12 of the Act of 1890. The local section is section 46 of the 1931 Ordinance which is based on section 41 of the Act of 1914.
(c) the words "or purchaser" have been added after "bailiff or other officer" at the end at the suggestion of the Incorporated Law Society of Hong Kong. As the editor of Chitty's Statutes (Vol. 17, p. 590, note (j)) points out, if the claimant can recover the goods from the purchaser the provision in the earlier part of the section that the purchaser of the goods shall acquire a good title is of no avail.
PROBATES AMENDMENT ORDINANCE, 1933.
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL moved the first reading of a Bill intituled "An Ordinance to amend further the Prebates Ordin- ance, 1897." He said: This Bill makes a number of amendments, explained in detail in the memorandum of Objects and Reasons, in the Principal Ordinance dealing with the administration of estates, which have been suggested by the Official Administrator and approved by His Honour the Chief Justice.
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded and the Bill was read a first time.
Objects and Reasons.
The "Objects and Reasons" for the Bill were stated as follows:- 1. Section 2 adds two sub-sections to section 11 of the principal Ordinance. The new sub-section (3) authorising the Official Administrator to employ a solicitor or other agent with the sanction of the Court is derived from section 24 (10) and 61 (c) of Ordinance No. 10 of 1931. The new sub-section (4), regulating applications to the court by the Official Administrator, follows the procedure laid down for such applications by the Official Receiver under Bank- ruptcy Rule No. 156 published in the Hong Kong Government Gazette of the 18th November, 1932.
2. Section 3 substitutes for sections 18 and 19 of the principal Ordinance redrafted sections making it clearer that an intestate's estate in the Colony is to vest in the Official Administrator, until administra- tion is granted, whether the intestate died in the Colony or else- where and that the limit of $250 referred to in section 19 of the principal Ordinance applies to the value of the whole estate in the Clony and not to the whole estate wherever situate.
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