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552 no Crown lease has yet been issued and the lots are held on the conditions of graut in the name of the "Secretary for Chinese Affairs", Crown leases are about to be issued in these cases.
4. The vesting is in every case made subject to the trusts on which the respective properties shall have been held immediately before the commencement of the Ordi-
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5. Section 4 is drafted with the intention of enabling the officer for the time being performing the duties of the office to deal with the legal estate, whether be be the sub- stantive holder of the office or only an acting Secretary for Chinese Affairs. It is also intended to obviate the rule that a lease granted to a corporation sole passes to the personal representatives of the occupant and not to his successors : see Halsbury, Vol. 8, para. 821, p. 371, and Arundell's Case (1615) 1 Roll. Abr. p. 515, cited in Fulwood's Case (1591) 4 Co. Rep. 64 b, Note A.
6. Section 5 provides a means of resolving any doubt as to who is, or was at any date, the occupant of the corporation. The method adopted is that of a certificate by the Colonial Secretary.
7. The other sections of the Ordinance are common form in incorporation Ordinances.
5th January, 1928.
J. H. KEMP,
Attorney General,
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