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[No. 4:-27.2.28.-2.]

INTITULED

An Ordinance to provide for the incorporation

of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.

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 Secretary for Short title. Chinese Affairs Incorporation Ordinance, 1928.

2. The person for the time being performing the duties Incorporation of the office of Secretary for Chinese Affairs shall be a of the corporation sole (hereinafter called the corporation). and Secretary shall have the name of "The Secretary for Chinese Affairs for Chinese Incorporated", and by that name shall and may sue and be sued in all courts in this Colony and shall and may have and use a common seal.

Affairs.

3.-(1) The corporation shall have power to acquire, Powers of accept leases of, purchase, take, hold and enjoy any lands, corporation. buildings, messuages, or tenements of what nature or kind soever and wheresoever situated, and also to invest moneys upon mortgage of any lands, buildings, messages, or tenements, or upon the mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities of any government, municipality, corporation or company, and also to purchase, acquire and possess goods and chattels of what nature and kind soever.

(2) The corporation shall further have power by deed under its seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, exchange, partition, yield up, mortgage, demise, reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings, messuages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities, or other goods and chattels whatsoever, which are for the time being vested in or belonging to the corporation upon such terms as to the corporation may seem fit.

4. Notwithstanding any change in the occupant of the Property corporation, whether on account of death, departure on and rights leave, return from leave, temporary employment elsewhere, transferred

to corporation resumption of duties, new appointment, or other cause to vest or whatsoever, and notwithstanding the nature of the pro- remain vested perty or rights, all property and rights whatsoever, traus- in corporation ferred to the corporation, or to any occupant of the cor- and not to poration as such, in any manner whatsoever, shall vest or pass to remain vested in the corporation so as to be capable of personal re-

presentatives being dealt with by the occupaut of the corporation for of occupant. the time being, and shall not vest in any occupant in his natural capacity.

5. If any question arises as to who is, or was at any Evidence as time, the occupant of the corporation for the time being, to the identity a certificate under the hand of the Colonial Secretary shall of the be conclusive evidence for all purposes whatsoever as to occupant

of the the person who is or was the occupant.

corporation.

6. All deeds and other instruments requiring the seal Execution of of the corporation shall be sealed in the presence of the documents. occupant of the corporation for the time being, and such deeds and instruments, and all other documents, instru- ments and writings requiring the signature of the corpora- tion, shall be signed by such occupant.

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