This Ordinance makes the named Procureur Général a body corporate and gives the corporation property and seal-related powers, subject to a notice requirement and a saving clause.
To provide for the incorporation of the Procureur Général in Hong Kong of the Society of the Missions Etrangères. (Amended 33 of 1999 s. 3)[28 March 1890](Format changes—E.R. 2 of 2023) 1. Short title This Ordinance may be cited as the Missions Etrangères Incorporation Ordinance.(Amended 50 of 1911; 1 of 1912 Schedule; 5 of 1924 s. 6) 2. Incorporation of Procureur Général in Hong Kong of Society of Missions Etrangères The Procureur Général in Hong Kong of the Society of the Missions Etrangères shall be a body corporate, hereinafter called the corporation, and shall have the name of “The Procureur Général in Hong Kong of the Missions Etrangères”, 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 Général 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) 3. Use of seal All deeds, documents, and other instruments requiring the seal of the said corporation shall be so sealed in the presence of the said Procureur Général 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) 4. Saving 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)