WAR MEMORIAL NURSING HOME TRUSTEES ORDINANCE, 1923

WAR MEMORIAL NURSING HOME TRUSTEES ORDINANCE, 1923

No. 14 of 1923.

An Ordinance to provide for the Incorporation of the
trustees of the war memorial nursing home.

[14th September, 1923.]
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the War Memorial
nursing Home Trustees Ordinance, 1923.
2. In this Ordinance, constitution means the consti-
tution of the War Aleniorial Nursing Home as approved from
time to time by the trustees for the time being of the said War
Memorial nursing Home: Provided that, so long as the
trustees of the estate of Granville Sharp deceased shall make
any contribution to the upkeep of the said War Memorial
Nursing Home out of the said estate and so long as such con-
tribution shall be accepted by the trustees of the War
Memorial Slursing Home, the said constitution shall always
provide that two of the trustees of the said War Memorial
Nursing Horne shall be the trustees of the estate of Granville
Sharp deceased.





3.-(1) The trustees of the War Memorial Nursing Home,
and their successors in, office as hereinafter defined, shall be
a body corporate, hereinafter called the corporation, and shall
have the name of The Trustees of the War Memorial Nursing
Home , and in 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 first trustees shall be Dallas Gerald Mercer Ber-
nard, Sir Catchick Paul Chater, George Thomas Money
Edkins and Alexander Gordon Stepheil.

(3) Subsequent trustees, whether appointed in inin-iediate
succession to any of the first trustees or not, shall be ap-
pointed in accordance with the constitution, and shall for the
time being be deemed to be successors in office of the
first trustees and to be members of the corporation upon notice
of their appointment, and of the retirement of the retiring
trustees (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 contin-
uing or retiring trustees and shall 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 wheresover 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, mortgage, demise, re-assign, transfer or
otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings,' messuages, tene-
ments, 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 corporate
seal of the corporation shall be sealed in the presence of two
of the trustees and shall be signed by two of the trustees.

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 nientiopied in thIS
Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under them.
[Originally No. 14 of 1923.] Short title. Interpretation. Incorporation. Powers of corporation. Execution of documents. Internal management. Saving of rights to the Crown and of certain other rights.

[Originally No. 14 of 1923.] Short title. Interpretation. Incorporation. Powers of corporation. Execution of documents. Internal management. Saving of rights to the Crown and of certain other rights.

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