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Saving of existing rights.
Duration of Ordinance.
Commencement of Ordinance.
ORDINANCES No. 11 OF 1871 AND No. 1 OF 1872..
Hongkong Pier and Godown Company.
Hongkong & Shanghai Bank.
16. Nothing in this Ordinance otherwise than specially enacted herein shall be construed to interfere in any way with any existing rights in the land on which the said wharf and pier are to be constructed or the lands or foreshore adjoining the same.
17. This Ordinance shall continue in force for thirty years to be computed from the first day of January, 1871: Provided always that the Governor in Council may from time to time, so often as he shall think it expedient, by an order to be published in the Gazette, declare that the duration of this Ordinance shall be extended for any further term not exceeding ten years at a time, and thereupon this Ordinance shall continue in force for such extended period.
18. This Ordinance shall come into force on such day as shall be hereafter fixed by proclamation under the hand of the Governor.
[In force from 14th June, 1872, under proclamation of same date. Repealed by Ordinance No. 4 of 1887.]
No.
1 of 1872.
Title.
Preamble.
Power to establish branch banks at certain places.
Construction.
Suspending clause.
An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 5 of 1866, and to give to the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Company certain extended Powers.
[5th April, 1872.]
WHEREAS it is expedient to amend Ordinance No. 5 of 1866, intituled “An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, for the incorporation of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Company" and to give the said company power to establish banks, branch banks, or agencies for exchange, deposit and remittance at places other than those provided for by section 4 of the said Ordinance: Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. The company may, with the consent of the Commissioners for the time being for executing the Office of Lord High Treasurer in England, establish any banks or branch banks at Saigon in French Cochin-China or at Manila or at any other port or place in the Phillippine Islands or in any other port, place or city to the eastward of India where any British Consulate or Vice-Consulate is now or may hereafter be established and also without such consent as aforesaid may establish at any such port, town, city or place as aforesaid, agencies for exchange, deposit and remittance.
2. This Ordinance and Ordinance No. 5 of 1866, shall be read together and construed as one Ordinance.
3. This Ordinance shall not come into operation until Her Majesty's confirmation thereof shall have been proclaimed in the Colony by the Governor.
[Disallowance proclaimed 14th October, 1872: repealed by Ordinance No. 4 of 1887.]
1122
Saving of existing rights.
Duration of Ordinance.
Commencement of Ordinance.
ORDINANCES No. 11 OF 1871 AND No. 1 OF 1872..
Hongkong Pier and Godown Company.
Hongkong & Shanghai Bank.
16. Nothing in this Ordinance otherwise than specially enacted herein shall bet construed to interfere in any way with any existing rights in the land on which the said wharf and pier are to be constructed or the lands or foreshore adjoining the same.
17. This Ordinance shall continue in force for thirty years to be computed from the first day of January, 1871: Provided always that the Governor in Council may from time to time, so often as he shall think it expedient, by an order to be published in the Gazette, declare that the duration of this Ordinance shall be extended for any further term not exceeding ten years at a time, and thereupon this Ordinance shall continue in force for such extended period.
18. This Ordinance shall come into force on such day as shall be hereafter fixed by proclamation under the hand of the Governor.
[In force from 14th June, 1872, under proclamation of same date. Repealed by Ordinance No. 4 of 1887.]
No.
1 of 1872.
Title.
Preamble.
Power to
establish branch banks at certain places.
Construction.
Suspending clause.
An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 5 of 1866, and to give to the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Company certain extended Powers.
[5th April, 1872.]
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HEREAS it is expedient to amend Ordinance No. 5 of 1866, intituled “An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, for the incorporation of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Company" and to give the said company power to establish banks, branch banks, or agencies for exchange, deposit and remittance at places other than those provided for by section 4 of the said Ordinance: Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. The company may, with the consent of the Commissioners for the time being for executing the Office of Lord High Treasurer in England, establish any banks or branch banks at Saigon in French Cochin-China or at Manila or at any other port or place in the Phillippine Islands or in any other port, place or city to the eastward of India where any British Consulate or Vice-Consulate is now or may hereafter be estab- lished and also without such consent as aforesaid may establish at any such port, town, city or place as aforesaid, agencies for exchange, deposit and remittance.
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2. This Ordinance and Ordinance No. 5 of 1866, shall be read together and con- strued as one Ordinance.
3. This Ordinance shall not come into operation until Her Majesty's confirmation. thereof shall have been proclaimed in the Colony by the Governor.
[Disallowance proclaimed 14th October, 1872: repealed by Ordinance No. 4 of 1887.]
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