JAPANESE RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION ORDINANCE, 1927

JAPANESE RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION ORDINANCE, 1927

No. 7 of 1927.

An Ordinaitce to Provide for the incorporation of the Directors of the
Japanese Residents Associalion of Hong Kong (Hong Kong Nipponjin
Kwai ).

[24th June, 1927]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Japanese Residents
Association Ordinance, 1927.

2. In this Ordinance 'constitution' means the constitution of. the
japanese Residents Association of Hong Kong as approved from time to
time by the directors for the time being of the said association.





3.(i) The directors of the Japanese Residents Association
of Hong Kong, and their successors in office as hereinafter
defined, shall be a body corporate, hereinafter called the corpora-
tion, and shall have the name of ' The Directors of the Japanese
Residents 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
successors in office of the first directors and 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 con-
tinuing or retiring directors and sealed with the common seal
of the corporation.

4-(1) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (2), the
corporation shall have power to acquire, accept leases of, pur-
chase, 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 any goods
and c hattels of what nature and kind soever.

(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of sub-section (1), the
corporation shall not acquire any immovable property in the
Colony unless it has previously obtained the special consent of
the Governor in Council in each case.

(3) 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, or
any goods and chattels whatsoever, which are for the time being

As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939, Supp. Sched.

vested in or belonging to the corporation, upon such terms as
to the corporation may seem fit.

5. The pieces or parcels of ground respectively registered
in the Land Office at Victoria in this Colony as Inland Lot
Nos. 1378 and 1879 and Section C of Inland Lot No. 1460
together with all rights, privileges and appurtenances respectively
belonging or appeitaining thereto, or therewith usually held
occupied and enjoyed are 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 respective Crown leases thereof.

6. 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.

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

8. 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 1927. Law Rev. Ord., 1939.] Short title. Interpretaton. Incorporation. Powers of corporation. Vesting of properties. Execution of documents. Interal management. Saving of rights of the of certain other rights.

[Originally No. 7 of 1927. Law Rev. Ord., 1939.] Short title. Interpretaton. Incorporation. Powers of corporation. Vesting of properties. Execution of documents. Interal management. Saving of rights of the of certain other rights.

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