GIRL GUIDES ASSOCIATION (HONG KONG BRANCH) ORDINANCE

GIRL GUIDES ASSOCIATION (HONG KONG BRANCH) ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 283.

GIRL GUIDES ASSOCIATION (HONG KONG BRANCH).

To further avd protect the activities of the Girl Guides
Association, and to Mcorporate the Hong Kong Branch
thereof.

[6th December, 1935.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Girl Guides
Association (Hong Kong Branch) Ordinance.

2. In this Ordinance-
'The Girl Guides Association' means The Girl Guides
Association incorporated by Royal Charter dated the
14th day of December, 1922 ;
'Girl Guide' includes Brownie, Gir) Guide, Ranger, and
Lone Guide, recognized as such under the rules of The
Girl Guide Association, and also all persons recognized
as officers under the rules of The Girl Guides Asso-
ciation.

3. No person other than The Girl GuidesS Associa-
tion, Hong Kong Branch, shall distribute or sell or expose
for sale-
(a)any badge, token or emblem specilleally adopted
by The Girl Guides Association for use by Girl
Guides; or
(b)any badge, token or emblem Containing the words
'Girl Guldes,' or tile characters
or the characters

4. No person shall, except witb the autliority of The
Girl Guides Association or The Girl Guides Association,
Hong Kong Branch, or with lawful authority or lawful
excuse, have in Iiis possession-
(a)any badge, token or emblem specificially adopted
by The Girl Guides Association for use by, Girl
Guides; or
(b) any badge, token or emblem containing the words
'Girl Guides' or the characters 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 Girl
Guides Association for use by Girl Guides 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 Girl
Guide as to bc calculated to deceive or

6. No Girl Guide shall, by virtue of her wearin-
carrying or bearing any badge, token or emblem of The
Girl Guides Association or otherwise, attempt to enforce
or exercise authority otherwise than in accordance with the
rules of The Girl Guides Association.

7. (1) No person shall form, or work in connexion
with, or be a member of, any organization which without
authority from The Girl Guides Association claims or
purports to be 'Girl Guides', or any organization, other
that The Girl Guides Association, Hong Kong Branch,
which uses the title of 'Girl Guides' or the equivalent
Chinese title thereof, that is to say the Chinese characters
or the Chinese characters '
formerly used as the equivalent Chinese title, or any title
in any language, with or without additional words or
characters, which so closely resembles any of the said titles
as to be calculated to deceive or mislead, or any organiza-
tion which, by the use of any such title or otherwise, with-
out due authority purports or claims to be connected with
The Girl Guides Association or with The Girl Guides As-
sociation, 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 Girl
Guides 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 Girl Guides Association, Hong
Kong Branch.





8. Any person who contravenes any of the pro-
visions of this Ordinance shall upon summary conviction
be liable to a fine of two hundred and fifty dollars.

9. (1) The colony commissioner, the assistant colony
commissioner, the colony secretary, and the colony
treasurer for the time being of The Girl Guides Associa-
tion, Hong Kong Branch, shall be a body corporate,
hereinafter called the corporation, and shall have the name
of 'The Girl Guides 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) When any person is appointed to the office of
colony commissioner, colony secretary, or colony treasurer
of The Girl Guides Association, Hong Kong Branch, such
person shall, within six weeks after her appointment or
within such further time as may be allowed by the
Governor, furnish to the Governor satisfactory evidence of
her appointment, and, in the case of a colony commis-
sioner, that the appointment has been made with the
consent of The Girl Guides Association first had and
obtained.

(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 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,
good and chattels of what nature and kind soever.

(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1),
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, ex-
change, partition, yield up, mortgage, dernise, 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 time being vested in or belonging to the corpora-
tion upon such terms as to the corporation may seem fit.

11. All property, vessels, goods and chattels, and all
rights which immediately before this Ordinance belonged
to or were vested in the members of the unincorporated
Girl Guides Association, Hong Kong Branch, as such, or
in any person in trust for or on behalf of such members,
are hereby transferred to and vested in the corporation.

12. All deeds and other instruments requiring the seal
of the corporation shall be sealed in the presence of, and
shall be signed by, the colony cornmissioner for the time
being and the assistant colony commissioner for the time
being, instruments requiring the signature of the
corporation shall be signed by such commissioner and
assistant commissioner.

13. All matters of internal management shall be settled
and carried out in accordance with the constitution, by-
laws and rules of The Girl Guides Association, and with
any by-laws and rules made by the Hong Kong Branch
thereof tinder the rules of The Girl Guides Association.

14. 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 persons except such as are mentioned in
this Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under
them, and nothing herein contained shall be deemed to
authorize any change in the general spirit of the movement
of The Girls Guides Association as incorporated by the
founder, Lieut-General Lord Baden-Powell, G.C.V.0,
K. C. B., F. R G.S., D.C.L., LL.D., and embodied in his book
'Girl Gulding' or in the 'Rules, Policy and Organiza-
tion' of The Girl Guides Association for the time being
in force.
51 of 1935. 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. Vesting of property and rights. Internal management. Execution of documents. Saving the rights of the Crown and of certain other rights.

51 of 1935. 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. Vesting of property and rights. Internal management. Execution of documents. Saving the rights of the Crown and of certain other rights.

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