ZETLAND HALL TRUSTEES INCORPORATION ORDINANCE, 1922

ZETLAND HALL TRUSTEES INCORPORATION ORDINANCE, 1922

No. 23 of 1922.
An Ordinance to mnend the law relating to the incorpora-
tion of the Zetland Hall Trustees.

[29th September, 1922.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Zetland Hall
Trustees Incorporation Ordinance, 1922.

2.-(11) The persons who have been certified by the
Worshipful District Grand Secretaries of the District drand
Lodge of Hongkong and South China of the English Con-
stitution and of the Scottish Constitution respectively by
statutory declarations made by them and filed with the
Registrar of Companies on the 28th day of September, 1922,
to be the elected representatives of the following lodges,
namely:-
Zetland Lodge No. 525 E.C.,
Victoria Lodge No. 1026 E.C.,
Perseverance Lodge No. 1165 E.C.,.
United Service Lodge No. 1341 E.C.,
University Lodge No..3666 E.C.,.
St John's Lodge No. 618 S.C.,
Naval and Military Lodge No. 848 S.C.,
Eastern Scotia Lodge No. 923 S.C.,
and their successors in office as hereinafter defined, shall be
a body corporate, hereinafter called the corporation, and shall
have the name The Zetland Hall Trustees and by that
name shall have perpetual succession and shall and may sue
and be sued in all courts in the Colony and shall and may
have and use a common seal.





(2) The corporation shall, subject to the licence of the
Governor having been previously obtained in each case, 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 the
Colony.
(3) The corporation shall also have full power by deed
under the corporate seal to grant, sell, convey, assign,
surrender and yield up, mortgage, demise, re-assign, transfer
or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings, messuages and
tenements for the time being vested in them on such terms
as they may deem expedient.

&-(1) If at any time any of the lodges specified in
section 2 (1) shall wish to appoint a new representative
in succession to or in substitution for the representative speci-
fied in the statutory declarations referred to in section 2 (l)
it shall be lawful for the said lodge so to do, and the said
new representative shall be deemed to be a trustee in succes-
sion to or in substitution for the said former representative
upon the filing with the Registrar of Companies of a certif-
icate of the fact of such election certified under the hand of
the Worshipful District Grand Secretary of the District
Grand Lodge of Hongkong and South China of the English
Constitution or of the Scottish Constitution.
(2) The power of appointing a new representative shall
apply the case of persons elected under sub-section (1) of
this section in the same way as it applies in the case of the
persons specified in the statutory declarations referred to in
section 2 (1).

4. The piece or parcel of ground registered in the lard.
Office as Victoria Inland Lot No. 31, together with the
encroachments covered by the licence of the Governor dated
the 3rd day of November, 1902, and together with all
rights, easements and appurtenances belonging or ap-
pertaining thereto or therewith usually held, occupied
and enjoyed, is hereby transferred to and vested in the
corporation subject to the payment of the rents and the
performance of the covenants and conditions reserved by
and contained in the crown lease of the same and the said
licence.

As amended by Law Rev. Ord,, 1924.





The corporation shall manage and -maintain a hall or
halls, to be used, occupied and enjoyed as a meeting place
for the members of the lodges specified in cection 2, either
on the ground specified in section 4 or elsewhere, and may
permit the said hall or halls to be used, occupied and
enjoyed as a meeting place for the members of other masonic
lodges, chapters and bodies, and may at their discretion
furnish and equip such hall or balls.

6. The corporation nuay charge stich fees, rents and
charges for the use of the properties, of the corporation as
may seem expedient to the corporation.

7. The corporation may front thne to time give and pay
over in equal shares to the lodges specified in section 2 any
funds not required for the purposes of the maintenance or
development of the propertles or the corporation.

8.-(1) The chairman of the trustees shall hold office for
one year from the 1st day of January in each year and shall
be appointed from the trustees representing the lodge.,
working under the english Constitution.

(2) The representative for the time being of the Zetland
Lodge of Freemasons, No. 525 E.C., shall be the chairman
of the trustees until the 31st day of December, 1923.

(3) in the absence of the chairman of the truistees from
any meeting, the trustee representing the senior lodge working
under the english constitution shall be the chairman of the
meeting.

Save as herein provilded, three trustees persolially
present shall be a quoruai for the purpose of any meet-
ing of the trustees and for the exercise of any of their
corporate powers: -Provided that no quorunt shall be deemed
duly constituted unless half at least of the trustees present
shall represent lodges working under the english Coustitu-
tion.
(5) A meeting of the trustees may be convened by any
one of them, and all questions arising at any such meeting
shall be decided by the votes of a majority of the trustees
present and voting at such a meeting, in the event of
equality of votes, the chairman shall have a or
casting vote.

9.-(1) All deeds, documents and other instruments
requiring the corporate seal of the corporation shall be
sealed by one of the trustees and signed by not less than
three of the trustees.

(2) All documents which are required by law to be
signed by the corporation shall be signed by three of the
trustees.

10. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed
to affect the rights of His Majesty the King, His Heirs and
Successors, or the rights of any body politic or corporate or
of any other person except such as are mentioned in this
Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under them.

[s. 11, rep Law -Revision Ordinance, 1924.]
[Originally No. 23 of 1922. Law Rev. Ord., 1924.] Short title. Incorporation of trustees. Successors in office. Vesting of property. Use of property. Fees and rents for use of property. Apportionment of surplus funds. Meetings of trustees. Execution of documents. Saving of rights of the Crown and of certain other rights.

[Originally No. 23 of 1922. Law Rev. Ord., 1924.] Short title. Incorporation of trustees. Successors in office. Vesting of property. Use of property. Fees and rents for use of property. Apportionment of surplus funds. Meetings of trustees. Execution of documents. Saving of rights of the Crown and of certain other rights.

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