Cap 1028 - IRISH PROVINCE OF THE ORDER OF FRANCISCANS MINOR INCORPORATION ORDINANCE 1

Chapter: 1028 IRISH PROVINCE OF THE ORDER OF
FRANCISCANS MINOR INCORPORATION
ORDINANCE

Gazette Number Version Date


Long title 30/06/1997


To provide for the incorporation of the Procurator in Hong Kong of the Irish Province of the Order of Franciscans
Minor.


[24 December 1937]


(Originally 28 of 1937 (Cap 291 1950))

Section: 1 Short title 30/06/1997


This Ordinance may be cited as the Irish Province of the Order of Franciscans Minor Incorporation Ordinance.

Section: 2 Incorporation 32 of 1999 01/07/1997


Remarks:
Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 32 of 1999 s. 3


The Procurator for the time being in Hong Kong of the Irish Province of the Order of Franciscans Minor shall be
a corporation sole, hereinafter called the corporation, and shall have the name of "The Procurator in Hong Kong of the
Irish Province of the Order of Franciscans Minor", and in that name shall have perpetual succession and shall and may
sue and be sued in all courts in Hong Kong and shall and may have and use a common seal.

(Amended 32 of 1999 s. 3)

Section: 3 Power of corporation 30/06/1997


(1) The corporation shall have power to acquire, accept leases of, purchase, take, hold and enjoy any lands,
buildings, messuages or tenements of what nature or kind soever and wheresoever situate, and also to invest moneys
upon mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements, or upon the mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds,
shares or securities of any government, municipality, corporation, company or person, and also to purchase, acquire
and possess vessels and other 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 vessels or other goods and
chattels which are for the time being vested in or belonging to the corporation, upon such terms as to the corporation
may seem fit.

Section: 4 Property transferred to corporation to pass to successors 30/06/1997


The legal estate in any property whatsoever transferred to the corporation in any manner whatsoever shall, in the
event of the death of the Procurator for the time being in Hong Kong of the Irish Province of the Order of Franciscans
Minor, or in the event of his ceasing to hold office as such Procurator, pass to his successor in such office when
appointed.

Section: 5 Appointment of Procurator L.N. 362 of 1997;

32 of 1999
01/07/1997



Remarks:
Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 32 of 1999 s. 3




Cap 1028 - IRISH PROVINCE OF THE ORDER OF FRANCISCANS MINOR INCORPORATION ORDINANCE 2

(1) When any other person is appointed to the office of Procurator in Hong Kong of the Irish Province of the
Order of Franciscans Minor such person shall within three weeks after his appointment or within such further time as
may be allowed by the Chief Executive furnish to the Chief Executive satisfactory evidence of his appointment.

(2) A notification in the Gazette under the hand of the Chief Secretary for Administration that such evidence
has been furnished to the Chief Executive by such person shall be conclusive evidence of such appointment.
(Amended L.N. 226 of 1976; L.N. 242 of 1994; L.N. 362 of 1997)

(Amended 32 of 1999 s. 3)

Section: 6 Execution of documents 30/06/1997


All deeds and other instruments requiring the seal of the corporation shall be sealed in the presence of the said
Procurator or his attorney and shall be signed by him or his attorney, and such signing shall be taken as sufficient
evidence of the due sealing of such deeds and other instruments and all deeds, instruments and other documents and
writings requiring the signature of the corporation shall be signed by such Procurator or his attorney.

Section: 7 Saving 32 of 1999 01/07/1997


Remarks:
Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 32 of 1999 s. 3


Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed to affect the rights of the Central Authorities or the
Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region under the Basic Law and other laws, or the rights of
any body politic or corporate or of any other persons except such as are mentioned in this Ordinance and those
claiming by, from or under them.

(Amended 32 of 1999 s. 3)