ZETLAND HALL TRUSTEES INCORPORATION ORDINANCE, 1922

ZETLAND HALL TRUSTEES INCORPORATION ORDINANCE, 1922

No. 23 of 1922.

An Ordinance to amend the law relating to the incorporation
of the Zetland Hall Trustees.

[29th September, 1922.]

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

2.-(1) The persons who have been certified by the
Worshipful District Grand Secretaries of the District Grand
Lodge of Hong Kong 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, nainely-
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, reassign, 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.

3.-(1) If at any time any of the lodges specified in
Section 2 (1) wishes to elect a new representative in succession
to or in substitution for the representative specified in the
statutory declarations referred.to in section 2 (1), it shall be
lawful for the said lodge so to do, and the said new representative
shall be deemed to be a trustee in succession to or in substitution
for the said former representative upon the filing with the
Registrar of Companies of a certificate of the fact of such
election certified under the hand of the Worshipful District
Grand Secretary of the Districe Grand Lodge of Hong Kong
and South China of the English Constitution or of the Scottish
Constitution.

(2) The power of electing a new representative shall apply
in the case of persons elected under sub-section (1) of this

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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 Land
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 appertaining 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.

5. 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 section 2, either on tile
ground specified in section 4 or elsewhere, and may permit the
said hall or balls 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 halls.

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

7. The corporation may from time 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. properties of the corporation.

8.-(1) The chairman of the trustees sliall hold office for
one year from the ist day of January in each year and shall be
appointed from the trustees representing the lodges working
under the English Constitution.

(2) In the absence of the chairman of the trustees from
any meeting, the trustee representing the senior lodge working
tinder the English Constitution shall be the chairman of the
meeting.

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(3) Save as herein provided, three trustees personally
present shall be a quorum for the. purpose of any meeting of
the trustees and for the exercise of any of their corporate powers :
Provided that no quorum shall be deemed duly. constituted
unless half at least of the trustees present ' represent lodges
working under the English Constitution.

(4) 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 second or casting vote.

9.-(1) All deeds, documents and other instrument requir-
ing 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.

No. 24 of 1922, incorporate in No. 8 of 1921.

No. 25 of 1922', repealed by No. 5 of 1924.
[Originally No. 23 of 1922. Law Rev. Ord., 1939.] 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., 1939.] 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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