BOY SCOUTS ASSOCIATION ORDINANCE, 1927

BOY SCOUTS ASSOCIATION ORDINANCE, 1927

No. 22 of 1927.

An Ordinance to further wid protect the activities of the Boy
Scouts Association, and to incorporate the Hong Kong
Branch thereof.
[2nd December, 1927.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Boy Scouts
Association Ordinance, 1927.

2. In this Ordinance-

(a) ' The Boy Scouts Association ' means the Boy Scouts
Association incorporated by Royal Charter dated the 4th day, of
January, 1912;

(b) ' Boy Scout ' includes Wolf Cub, Boy Scout, Sea
Scotit, Rover Scout, Lone Scout and Rover Sea Scotit, recognized
as such under the rules of the Boy Scouts Association, and also
all persons recognized as officers under the rules of the Boy
Scows Association.

3. No person other than the Boy Scouts Association, Hong
Kong Branch, shall distribute or sell or expose for sale-

(a) any badge, token or emblem specifically adopted by the
Boy Scouts Association for use byr boy scouts, or

(b) any hadge, token or emblem containing the word
Scout - or the characters

4. No person shall, except with the authority of the Boy
Scouts Association or of the Boy Scotits Association, Hong-
Kong Branch, or with other lawful authority or excuse,
have in his possession-.

(a) any badge, token or emblem specillcally adopted by the
Boy, Scouts Association for use by boy scouts, or

(b) any badge, token or emblem containing the word
Scout ' or the characters

5. No person shall without lawful authority or excuse have
in his possession-





(a) any device which so closely resembles any badge, token
or emblem specifically adopted by the Boy Scouts Association
for use by boy scouts as to lead to the belief that the device in
question is such badge, token or emblem, or

(b) any badge, token or emblem containing any words
or characters so closely resembling any words or characters
ordinarily used to describe any boy scout as to he calculated
to deceive or mislead.

6. No boy scout shall, by virtue of his wearing carrying
or bearing any badge, token or emblem of the Boy Scouts
Association or offierwise, attempt to enforce or exercise authority
otherwise than in accordance with the rules of the Boy Scouts
Association.

7.-(1) No person shall form or work in connexion with
or be a member of any organization which without authority
from the Boy Scouts Association claims or purports to be
'Boy Scouts', or any organization, other than the Boy Scouts
Association, Hong Kong Branch, which uses the title of ' Boy
Scouts ' or the equivalent Chinese title therefor, that is to say
the Chinese characters' or any title in any language,
with or without additional words or characters, which so closely
resembles either of the two said titles as to be calculated to
deceive or mislead, or any organization which, by the useof
any such title or otherwise, without due authority purports or
claims to be connected with the Boy Scouts Association or with.
the Boy Scouts Association; Hong Kong Branch.

(2) No person shall, without the consent of the Governor
in Council, form or work in connexion with or be a member of
any organization other than the Boy Scouts Association, Hong
Kong Branch, which carries on or is intended to carry on any
work of a similar nature to that carried on by the Boy Scouts
Association, Hong Kong Branch.

8. Every person who contravenes any of the provisions of
this Ordinance shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine
not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.

9.-(1) The President for the time being and the Commis-
sioner for the time being and the Honorary Treasurer for the

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





time being of the Boy Scouts Association, Hong Kong Branch,
shall be a body corporate, hereinafter called the corporation, and
shall have the name of the ' Boy Scouts Association, Hong
Kong Branch ' 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) Whenever any person is appointed to the office of
President, Commissioner or Honorary Treasurer of the Boy
Scouts Association, Hong Kong Branch, such person shall,
within six weeks after his appointment or within such further
time as may be allowed by the Governor, furnish to the Governor
satisfactory evidence of his appointment.

(3) A notification in the Gazette under the hand of the
Colonial Secretary that such evidence has been furnished to the
Governor by such person shall be conclusive evidence of such
appointment.

10.-(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 govern-
ment, municipality, corporation or company, and also to
purchase, acquire and possess vessels, goods and chattels of
what nature and kind soever.

(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of sub-section (i) 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,
vessels, goods or chattels, which are for the tirne being vested
in or belonging to the corporation, upon such terms as to the
corporation may seem fit.

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

11. All deeds and other instruments requiring the seal of
the corporation shall be sealed in the presence of and shall
be signed by the President for the time being and the Com-
missioner for the time being, and all instruments requiring the
signature of the corporation shall be signed by such President
and Commissioner.

12. All matters of internal management shall be settled and
carried out in accordance with the constitution, by-laws and rules
of the Boy Scouts Association, and with any by-laws or rules
made by the Hong Kong Branch thereof.

13. 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. 22 of 1927. Law Rev. Ord., 1939.] Short title. Interpretation. Distribution of badges. Unauthorized possession of badges. Possession of unauthorized badges. Wrongful exercise of authority. Unauthorized bodies. Penalty. Incorporation. Powers of corporation. Execution of documents. Internal management. Saving of rights of the Crown and of certain other rights.

[Originally No. 22 of 1927. Law Rev. Ord., 1939.] Short title. Interpretation. Distribution of badges. Unauthorized possession of badges. Possession of unauthorized badges. Wrongful exercise of authority. Unauthorized bodies. Penalty. Incorporation. Powers of corporation. Execution of documents. Internal management. Saving of rights of the Crown and of certain other rights.

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