Section 1
This Ordinance may be cited as the Society of Saint Maur Incorporation Ordinance 1923.
/akn/sg/act/act/1923/SSMIO
Society of Saint Maur Incorporation Ordinance 1923
The full official text, structured for quick navigation. Copy any provision or jump straight to a section.
Section 2
The said Euphrasie Labordenave and her successors for the time being in the office of Lady Superior in Penang of the Society of Saint Maur duly qualified as hereinafter provided shall be a body corporate (hereinafter called “the Corporation”), and shall have perpetual succession under the name of “The Lady Superior of the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus in Penang”.
Section 3
No successor of the said Euphrasie Labordenave in the office of Lady Superior in Penang of the Society of Saint Maur shall be deemed to be qualified as such successor unless and until her appointment as such Lady Superior has been notified to the Minister, and the same has been approved by him, and unless and until a notification of such approval has appeared in the Gazette.
Section 4
A notification in the Gazette of the approval of an appointment of a person as Lady Superior in Penang of the Society of Saint Maur shall be sufficient evidence that such person was duly appointed as such Lady Superior and is duly qualified as by this Ordinance is required.
Section 5
(1)
The Corporation may have and use a corporate seal which may from time to time be broken, changed, altered and made anew as to the Corporation seems fit.
(2)
All deeds, documents or other instruments requiring to be sealed with the seal of the Corporation shall be deemed to be duly sealed if such seal be affixed in the presence of the said Euphrasie Labordenave or other the Lady Superior in Penang of the Society of Saint Maur for the time being, or by her attorney duly authorised by a Power of Attorney deposited under section 48 of the Conveyancing and Law of Property Act 1886, and if each such deed, document or other instrument be signed by the said Euphrasie Labordenave or her successor or her attorney so authorised as aforesaid, and such signing shall be and be taken as sufficient evidence that the seal of the Corporation was duly and properly affixed, and that the same is the lawful seal of the Corporation.
(3)
The Corporation may sue and be sued in respect of its property or otherwise in all Courts of Justice.
(4)
The Corporation may acquire, purchase, take, hold and enjoy movable and immovable property of every description, and may sell, exchange, convey, assign, surrender and yield up, mortgage, demise, re-assign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any movable or immovable property so acquired, purchased, taken or held or otherwise vested in the Corporation upon such terms as to the Corporation shall seem fit.
Section 6
All immovable property formerly vested in the Lady Superior of the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus in Penang whether with or without the name of the Lady Superior for the time being holding such office, howsoever the same was vested (short particulars whereof are contained in the First Schedule hereto), is hereby vested in the Corporation for the respective estates and interests for which the same are held.
Section 7
The several persons mentioned in the third column of the Second and Third Schedules hereto, or the survivors or survivor of them, or the executors or administrators of them, or any of them in whom were vested the respective estates and interests mentioned in the second column of the said Second and Third Schedules, in the lands, hereditaments and premises specified in the first column of the said Second and Third Schedules, are hereby divested of such estates and interests, and such estates and interests are hereby vested in the Corporation as Trustee for the Society of Saint Maur, subject nevertheless to all conditions of tenure incident thereto, and to any trusts affecting the same, but with full power, subject as aforesaid, for the Corporation as such Trustee to deal with the property so vested in accordance with the provisions of section 5(4) hereof.
Section 8
Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect the rights of the Government or of any body politic or corporate or of any other persons except such as are mentioned in this Ordinance and those claiming by, through, from or under them.