Cap 1036 - MISSIONS ETRANGERES INCORPORATION ORDINANCE 1

Chapter: 1036 MISSIONS ETRANGERES INCORPORATION
ORDINANCE

Gazette Number Version Date


Long title 33 of 1999 01/07/1997


Remarks:
Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 33 of 1999 s. 3

To provide for the incorporation of the Procureur General in Hong Kong of the Society of the Missions Etrangeres.

(Amended 33 of 1999 s. 3)


[28 March 1890]

(Originally 3 of 1890 (Cap 299 1950))

Section: 1 Short title 30/06/1997


This Ordinance may be cited as the Missions Etrangeres Incorporation Ordinance.
(Amended 50 of 1911; 1 of 1912 Schedule; 5 of 1924 s. 6)


Section: 2 Incorporation of Procureur General in Hong Kong of

Society of Missions Etrangeres
33 of 1999 01/07/1997



Remarks:
Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 33 of 1999 s. 3


The Procureur General in Hong Kong of the Society of the Missions Etrangeres shall be a body corporate,
hereinafter called the corporation, and shall have the name of "The Procureur General in Hong Kong of the Missions
Etrangeres", and by 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, and the said seal may break, change, alter, and make
anew as to the said corporation may seem fit; and the said corporation shall have full 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 in Hong Kong, and also to invest moneys on mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages, or
tenements in Hong Kong, or on the mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares, or securities of any corporation or
company carrying on business or having an office in Hong Kong, and also to purchase and acquire all manner of
goods and chattels whatsoever; and the said corporation is hereby further empowered by deed under its seal, to grant,
sell, convey, assign, surrender, and yield up, mortgage, demise, reassign, transfer, or otherwise dispose of any lands,
buildings, messuages, and tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, and securities, goods and chattels, vested
in the said corporation on such terms as to the said corporation may seem fit:

Provided that due notice of appointment as such Procureur General and of the proof thereof having been placed in
the hands of the Chief Executive, shall be given in the Gazette.

(Amended 50 of 1911; 1 of 1912 Schedule; 33 of 1999 s. 3)

Section: 3 Use of seal 30/06/1997


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

(Amended 50 of 1911; 51 of 1911; 1 of 1912 Schedule; 2 of 1912 Schedule)

Section: 4 Saving 33 of 1999 01/07/1997


Remarks:
Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 33 of 1999 s. 3



Cap 1036 - MISSIONS ETRANGERES INCORPORATION ORDINANCE 2


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.

(Replaced 37 of 1950 Schedule. Amended 33 of 1999 s. 3)