CHEERO CLUB INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHEERO CLUB INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 271.

CHEERO CLUB INCORPORATION.

To provide for the incorporation of the Cheero Club of Hong
Kong.
[25th January, 1935.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Cheero Club
Incorp oration Ordinance.

2. In this Ordinance-
'general committee' means the general committee from
time to time appointed pursuant to section 5 ;
'ladies' advisory committee' means the ladies' com-
mittee for the time being appointed pursuant to
section 6;
'Young Men's Christian Association of Hong Kong'
means the Young Men's Christian Association as
incorporated by the Young Men's Christian Association
Ordinance.

3. The general committee for the time being shall be
a body corporate tinder the name of 'The Cheero Club
Hong Kong', hereinafter called the corporation, 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.

4. The purpose of the corporation shall be to promote
and carry out in the Colony the following objects-
(a)to maintain and carry on the Cheero Club Hong
Kong;
(b)to provide facilities for the entertainment and
recreation of His Majesty's, forces in the Colony;
(c)to provide the said facilities under the aegis of the
Young Men's Christian Association of Hong
Kong.

5. The first general committee shall be Sir William
Shenton and Philip Stanley Cassidy and Alexander





Somerled Mackichan, representing the Young Men's
Christian Association of Hong Kong, and Frederick
Charles Hall, the Reverend Lewis Bryan and George
Gwinnett Noble Tinson representing the subscribers to the
Cheero Club Fund, together with the chairman for the time
being of the ladies' advisory committee.
The first Chairman of the General Committee shall be
Frederick Charles Hall, and thereafter the chairman
for the time being shall be appointed by the general
committee.
On the resignation, death, or other determination of
the membership of any member of the general committee,
other than the chairman for the time being of the ladies'
advisory committee, the general committee shall appoint a
successor, and in making such appointment the general
committee shall, unless there is good reason to the contrary,
maintain on the general committee three nominees of the
board of directors of the Young Men's Christian Association
of Hong Kong and three representatives of the subscribers
to the Cheero Club Fund.

6. The ladies' advisory committee shall consist of
not less than six or rnore than twelve members. The first
members of the ladies' advisory committee shall be Mrs.
Edith Lewis, Mrs. Eileen Bellamy, Mrs. Esme Henderson,
Mrs. Ethel Tinson, Mrs. Nancy Fitzgerald, Mrs. Gladys
Baskett, Mrs. Margery , Bowes Smith, Mrs. Helen
Drummond.and Mrs. Hildred Shellshear.
The chairman of the ladies' advisory committee shall
be appointed by the ladies' advisory committee.
On the resignation, death, or other determination of
the membership of any member of the ladies' advisory
committee any vacancy so caused shall, if the general com-
mittee think fit, be filled by the general committee on the
r&ommendation of the ladies' advisory committee.

7. The general committee shall from time to time
delegate to the ladies' advisory committee such powers
as the general committee shall consider expedient, in order,
subject to the directions of the general committee to vest
in the ladies' advisory committee the control and manage-
ment of the Cheero Club.





8. The general committee shall have full power to
make regulations-
(a)for the control and management of any premises
owned or occupied by the corporation, and in regard
to all matters incidental to the conduct of such
premises;
(b)for the internal management, Subject to the advice
of the ladies' advisory committee, of the Cheero
Club.

9. (1) Subject to the provisions of subsection (2), 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 mort-
gage of any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements, or
upon the mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or
securities of any government, 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 subsection (i),
the corporation shall not acquire any immovable property in
the Colony unless it shall have 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 tip, mortgage, demise, reassign
transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings, mes-
suages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds,
shares or securities, vessels, goods or chattels, wbich are for
the time being vested in or belonging to the corporation,
upon such terms as to the corporation may seem fit.

10. All deeds and other instruments requiring the seal
of the corporation shall be scaled in the presence of and shall
be signed by two members of the general committee for
the time being and the secretary for the time being and
all instruments requiring the signature of the corporation
shall be signed by such committeemen and secretary.





11. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed Saving.
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 persons except such as are mentioned in this
Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under them.
4 of 1935. Short title. Interpretation. (Cap. 320.) Incorporation. Purposes. General committee.. Ladies advisory committee. Delegation of powers to ladies' advisory committee. Power to make regulations, etc. Power to acquire, hold and sell property. Sealing of deeds, etc. Saving.

4 of 1935. Short title. Interpretation. (Cap. 320.) Incorporation. Purposes. General committee.. Ladies advisory committee. Delegation of powers to ladies' advisory committee. Power to make regulations, etc. Power to acquire, hold and sell property. Sealing of deeds, etc. Saving.

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