TUNG WA HOSPITAL EXTENSION ORDINANCE, 1900

TUNG WA HOSPITAL EXTENSION ORDINANCE, 1900

[No. 1 of 1900.]

an Ordinance for the establishment of a hospital for
infectious diseases in connexion with the Tung Wa
Hospital.
[22nd March, 1900.]

WHEREAS it has been proposed to the Governor by the directors of
the Tung Wa Hospital that a branch hospital for the care and
treatment of infectious diseases amongst the Chinese should be
established, AND WHEREAS Her Majesty the Queen has been graciously
pleased, by way of endowment, to consent to the grant of a piece
of Crown land as a site; AND WHEREAS doubts have arisenas to
whether it is within the powers of the directors to acquire the
said piece of land and to build an direct the said branch hospital;
AND WHEREAS doubts have also arisen as to whether it is within the
powers of the said directors to bind in any way the Tung Wa
Hospital, or any of the members thereof, or any of the property
thereof, in connexion with any such agreement as is hereinafter
referred to; ND WHEREAS it is expedient to remove such doubts:-

1. this Ordinance may be cited as the Tung Wa Hospital
Extension Ordinance, 1900.

* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1923.
+ No. 1 of 1900 to be treated as incorporated in No. 1 of 1870.
(No. of 1912, s.16.)















2. The Tung Wa Hospital shall possess the same possess the same powers
and rights and be subject to the same liabilities and respon-
sibilities in connexion with the branch hospital for infectious
diseases intended to be built on the western side of InIand
Lot No. 1082 as it possesses is subject to with
regard to the Tung Wa Hospital, and the directors of
the Tung Wa Hospital shall have, and exercise the
powers and rights, and be subject to the same liabilities and
responsibilities in connexion with the said branch hospital as
they have and ecercise and are subject to in connexion with
the Tung Wa Hospital, and the provisions of sections 14, 16,
and 17 of the Tung Wa Hospital Incorporation Ordinance,
1870, shall apply to the branch hospital in the same way as
they now apply to the Tung Wa Hospital.

3. any two directors of the tung Wa Hospital shall have
power to ente into an agreement, under the common seal,
indemnifying the Government from and against any action,
suit, proceeding, claim, or demand by any person in respect
of the erectionor occupation or use of, or otherwise how-
soever in connexion with, the branch hospital. And such
agreement as aforesaid, when entered into, shall be binding
on the members and on the property of the Tung Wa
Hospital which may be sued in respect thereof.
[Originally No. 2 of 1900. Law Rev. Ord., 1924.] Short title. Extension of Ordinance No. 1 of 1870 to branch hospital. Ordinance No. 1 of 1870. Power to indemnify Government.

[Originally No. 2 of 1900. Law Rev. Ord., 1924.] Short title. Extension of Ordinance No. 1 of 1870 to branch hospital. Ordinance No. 1 of 1870. Power to indemnify Government.

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