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 constitution
of the War Memorial 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 make any
contribution to the upkeep of the said War Memorial Nutsing

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Home out of, the said estate and so long as such contribution
is accepted by the trustees of the War Memorial Nursing Home,
,the said constitution shall always provide that two of- the
trustees of the said War Memorial Nursing Home 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 inthe Colony and shall and
may have and use a common seal.

(2) Trustees. shall be appointed in accordance with the
constitution and shall for the time being be deemed to be
triembers of the corporation upon notice of their appointment,
and of the retirement of the retiring trustees (if any) whom they
have been appointed to replace, bei ng-filed with the Registrar
of Companies.

(3) such notice shall be signed by two of the continuing
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
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 corp oration 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

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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 bp 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.

No. 15. of 1923, incorporated in No. 4 Of 1899,
repealed by NO. 38 Of 1932.

No. 16 of 1923, incorporated in No. 2 Of 1870,
repealed by NO. 29 Of 1936.

No. 17 of 1923, repealed by No. 29 Of 1936.

No. 18 of 1923, repealed by No. 51 of 1936.

No. 19 of 1923, repealed by Law Revision
Ordinance, 1939, Supp. Sched.
[Originally No. 14 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. [24.7.36.] [4.12.36.]

[Originally No. 14 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. [24.7.36.] [4.12.36.]

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