The Bishop of Sierra Leone Incorporation Ordinance

3236 Cap. 275] Bishop of Sierra Leone Incorporation CHAPTER 275. BISHOP OF SIERRA LEONE INCORPORATION. ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS. SECTION.

Vesting in Bishop as body corporate of property held by him at dateof commencement.

CHAPTER 275. BISHOP OF SIERRA LEONE INCORPORATION. 24 of 1905. An Ordinance to constitute the Bishop of Sierra Leone a body corporate. [12TH OCTOBER, 1905.] Preamble. WHEREAS by Letters Patent dated the twenty-second day of May, 1852, Her late Majesty was pleased inter alia to constitute the Bishop of Sierra Leone a body corporate with perpetual succession and to confer certain rights and privileges on the said Bishop as such body corporate; Short title. Interpretation. AND WHEREAS Her said Majesty was pleased by Letters Patent dated the twenty-ninth day of November, 1897, to revoke the Letters Patent of the twenty-second day of May, 1852; AND WHEREAS it is expedient to constitute the Bishop of Sierra Leone a body corporate and to confer on him certain rights and privileges which he would have enjoyed if the said Letters Patent had not been revoked. 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Bishop of Sierra Leone Incorporation Ordinance. 2. The expression " Bishop of Sierra Leone " means the Bishop of the Church of England in Sierra Leone. Bishop of Sierra Leone Incorporation [Cap. 275 3237 3. The Bishop of Sierra Leone shall be a body corporate Bs_ishopLof · h 1 · d h f B. h f 1erra eonew1t perpetua successiOn an t e corporate name o 1s op o a body Sierra Leone, and he and his successors shall have full power corporate. and authority in the said corporate name to sue and be sued, and to acquire and hold property both real and personal, and to sell, mortgage, alienate or lease the said property. 4. The Bishop of Sierra Leone may have and use a corporate Corporateseal. seal and may from time to time break, alter, or renew the same. 5. All property held by the Bishop of Sierra Leone in his ~~s~ing in capacity as such, at the date when this Ordinance comes into b~~Yop as operation, shall vest in the Bishop of Sierra Leone as a body corporateho~ corporate as constituted by this Ordinance. Such property t~ h~~~t e d shall be deemed to include property which would have been date of comvested in the Bishop of Sierra Leone if the Letters Patent of the mencement. twenty-second of May, 1852, had not been revoked, but nothing in this Ordinance contained shall affect the rights of any person or body corporate claiming to be entitled, by reason of the revocation of the said Letters Patent, to any interest in such property, provided that legal proceedings in respect of such claim are commenced within twelve months from the date in which it is notified in the Gazette that this Ordinance is not disallowed by His Majesty. • 6. Nothing in this Ordinance contained shall be deemed to Saving of :ff h · h f H M H h · d rights of thea ect t eng ts o er ajesty, er eus an successors. crown. • 24th November, 1905.