Missions Étrangères Ordinance 1891

The said Nicolas Justin Couvreur and his successors for the time being in the office of Procureur at Singapore of “La Société des Missions Étrangères”, duly qualified as hereinafter provided, shall be a body corporate, hereinafter called the Corporation, and shall for the purposes of this Ordinance have the name of “The Procureur in Singapore of La Société des Missions Étrangères”, and by that name have perpetual succession, and shall and may have and use a corporate seal.

The said seal may from time to time be broken, changed, altered and made anew as the Corporation thinks fit.

The Corporation may acquire, purchase, take, hold and enjoy movable and immovable property of every description, and may sell, convey, assign, surrender and yield up, mortgage, demise, re‑assign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any movable and immovable property vested in the Corporation upon such terms as the Corporation thinks fit.

No person shall be deemed to be duly qualified as aforesaid unless and until he has first, with the approval of the Minister signified under his hand and seal, caused the power of attorney or other instrument constituting him such Procureur to be duly filed in the Registry of the Supreme Court at Singapore, pursuant to section 48 of the Conveyancing and Law of Property Act 1886, and unless and until a notification of such filing has appeared in the Gazette.

Such notification shall be sufficient evidence of the appointment, and that the person therein named is duly qualified as by this Ordinance is required.

No deed, document or other instrument, sealed with the seal of the Corporation, shall be deemed to be duly sealed unless such seal has been affixed in the presence of the Procureur duly qualified as aforesaid, or his attorney duly authorised by a power of attorney registered under section 48 of the Conveyancing and Law of Property Act 1886, and unless such deed, document or other instrument is signed by the Procureur or his attorney.

Such signing shall be sufficient evidence of the due sealing of such deed, document or other instrument.