YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ORDINANCE, 1923

YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ORDINANCE, 1923

No. 7 of 1923.

An Ordinance to provide for the incorporation of the directors
of the Young Men's Christian Association of Hong Kong.

[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 constitution
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 Hong Kong, 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 Hong Kong', 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) Directors shall be appointed in accordance with the
constitution and shall for the time being be deemed to be
members of the corporation upon notice of their appointment,
and of the retirement of the retiring directors (if any) whom
they have been appointed to replace, being filed with the
Registrar of Companies.

(3) Any such notice shall be signed by two of the
continuing or retiring directors and be sealed with the common
seal of the corporation.

4-(i) 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 tenements, 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, reassign, 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
Three nominees of the Board of Directors of the Y.M.C.A. are to be
maintained on the general committee of the Cheelo Club : see No. 4
of 1935, s. 5.
As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939, Supp. Sched.
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 directors and shall be signed 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. Law Rev. Ord., 1939.] 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. Law Rev. Ord., 1939.] 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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