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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 8, 1929.

HONG KONG.

No. 5 of 1929.

I assent.

L.S.

C. CLEMENTI, Governor.

Short title.

Interpreta- tion.

Transfer of

balances to the revenue

8th March, 1929.

An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the law with respect to certain unclaimed balances and certain other unclaimed sums.

[8th March, 1929.]

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Unclaimed Balances Ordinance, 1929.

2. In this Ordinance the term officer of the Govern- ment includes the Official Administrator, the Official Receiver and the Official Trustee.

3. All sums of money which, at the commencement of old unclaimed this Ordinance, have remained unclaimed in the Treasury or in the hands of any officer of the Government for a period of five years or longer, and have not been transferred to the general revenue of the Colony, shall be transferred to the general revenue of the Colony.

of the Colony.

Transfer of unclaimed balances generally. Ordinance

No. 2 of 1897.

4.-(1) Any sum of money other than the balance of an intestate estate and other than a sum of money in the Supreme Court, and any balance of au intestate estate administered by the Official Administrator under section 19 of the Probates Ordinance, 1897, which, after the com- mencement of this Ordinance, may for any cause be unclaimed in the Treasury or in the hands of any officer of the Government may, on the expiration of five years from the date of payment of such sum into the Treasury, or receipt thereof by such officer of the Government, be transferred to the general revenue of the Colony,

(2) Every transfer of any sum of money thus made to the general revenue of the Colony shall be by order of the Governor under the hand of the Colonial Secretary.

(3) Every order thus made shall state the particulars of the sum transferred and shall contain an intimation that the transfer is subject to the provisions contained in this Ordinance as to refunds.

(4) Every such order shall be published in the Gazette,

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