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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

No. S. 91. The following Bills were read a first time at a Meeting of the Council held on the 22nd April, 1915:-

A BILL

Short title.

Amend- ments.

Interpreta.

INTITULED

An Ordinance to provide for the levy of Estate Duty payable in respect of the estates of deceased persons.

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Estate Duty Ordinance, 1915, and shall come into force on the day of

1915.

2. From and after the commencement of this Ordinance the several enactments specified in the First Schedule are hereby amended to the extent set out therein.

3.-(1.) In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise tion of terms. requires,-

57 and 58 Vict. c. 30, 8. 22 (1).

Commis- sioner.

Deceased Person,

The Deceased. Estate Duty. Executor.

Incum- brances.

Interest in expectancy.

Property.

Property passing on the death.

Prescribed.

Settlement.

"Commissioner " means the Registrar of the Supreme Court, or such other person as the Governor may, by noti fication in the Gazette, appoint to carry out the provisions of this Ordinance :

";

"Deceased Person" and "The Deceased " mean a per- son dying after the commencement of this Ordinance :

Estate Duty

means estate duty under this Ordinance: "Executor ** means the executor or administrator of a deceased person and includes, as regards any obligation under this Ordinance, any person who takes possession of or intermeddles with the property of a deceased person or any portion thereof :

"Incumbrances

charges:

include mortgages and terminable

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"Interest in expectancy

includes an estate in remain- der or reversion and every future interest whether vested or contingent, but does not include a reversion expectant upon the determination of leases:

Property" includes movable and immovable property, and the proceeds of sale thereof, and any money or invest- ment for the time being representing the proceeds of sale, and any estate in any property movable or immovable and any debt and any thing in action and any other right or interest in the nature of property whether in possession or

not:

"Property passing on the death" includes property passing either immediately on the death or after any inter- val, and either originally or contingently, and either originally or by way of substitutive limitation, and the expression "on the death" includes "at a period ascer- tainable only by reference to the death":

"Prescribed" means prescribed by Rules made by the Governor-in-Council under this Ordinance :

"Settlement" means any non-testamentary disposition in writing, whether made voluntarily or upon a good or valuable consideration other than a bonâ fide pecuniary consideration, whereby any definite and certain property is settled or agreed to be settled in any manner for any purpose whatsoever :