YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ORDINANCE, 1923

YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ORDINANCE, 1923

No. 7of 1923.
An Ordinance to provide for the incorporation of the
directors of the Young Men's Christian Association
of Hongkong.
[1st June, 1923.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Young Men's
Christian Association Ordinance, 1923.

2. In this Ordinance, constitution means the consti-
tution of the Young Men's Christian Association of Hong-
kong as approved from time to time by the directors for the
time being of the said association.





3.-(1) The directors of the Young Men's Christian
Association of Hongkong, and their successors in office as
hereinafter defined, shall be a body corporate, hereinafter
called the corporation, and shall have the name of The
Directors of the Young Men's Christian Association of
hngkong , and in that name shall have perpetual succes-
sion, and shall and may sue and be sued all courts in
the Colony and shall and inay have and use a common seal.

(2) The first directors shall be James Cyril halmahoy
Allan, Dallas Gerald Mercer bernard, Alexander Stark
DalgIeish Cousland, Charles montague ede, george Thomas
Money Edkins, Percy hobson Holyoak, the Reverend Jolin
Kirk Maconachie, the Reverend Vyvvan henry Copley
Moyle, Eldward Victor David Parr, Walter Lesile Pattenden,
Ilenry Edward Pollock, John Harris Ranisay, Alexander
Gordon Stephen, Thomas graham Weall and John Roskruge
Wood.
(3) Subsequent directors, whetherappointed lu ininiedlate
succession to any of the first directors or not, shall be
appointed in accordance with the constitution, and shall for
the time being be deemed to be successors in office of the
first directors and to be inembers of the corporation upon
notice of their appointment, and of the retirement of the
retiring directors (if any) whom they shall have been
appointed to replace, being filed with the Registrar of
Companies.
(4) Any such notice shall be signed by two of the con-
tinuing or retiring directors and be sealed with the common
seal of the corporation.

4.-(1) The corporation shall have 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 situated, and also to invest moneys
upon mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages, or tene-
ments, or upon the mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds,
shares or securities of any corporation or company, and also
to purchase, acquire and possess steam-launches, boats and
other goods and chattels of what nature and kind soever.

(2) The corporation shall further have power by deed
under its seal to grant, sell, 'convey, assign, surrender,
exchange, partition, yield up, inortgage, demise, re-assign,
transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings,

messuages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds,
shares or securities, steam-launches, boats, or other goods
and chattels, which are for the time being vested in or

belonging to the corporation upon such terms as to the
corporation may seem fit.

5. All deeds and other instruments requiring the corpo-
rate seal of the corporation shall be sealed in the presence
of two of the directors and shall be sigmed by two of the
directors.

6. All matters of internal management, including any
amendment of the constitution, shall be settled and carried
out in accordance with the constitution.

7. nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed
to affect the rights of his Majesty the King, His Heirs or
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.

[Originally No. 7 of 1923.] Short title. Interpretation. Incorporation. Powers of corporation. Execution of documents. Internal management. Saving of rights of the Crown and of certain other rights.

[Originally No. 7 of 1923.] Short title. Interpretation. Incorporation. Powers of corporation. Execution of documents. Internal management. Saving of rights of the Crown and of certain other rights.

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