HONG KONG ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION INCORPORATION ORDINANCE
Title
HONG KONG ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION INCORPORATION ORDINANCE
Description
CHAPTER 287.
HONG KONG ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION
INCORPORATION.
TO Prooide for the incorporation of the Hong Kong Anti-
Tuberculosis Association..
[22nd October, 1948.]
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Hong Kong
Anti-Tuberculosis Association Incorporation Ordinance.
2. In this Ordinance-
'constitution' means the constitution of the association
approved from time to time by the board of directors for
the tirne being of the association, subject to the
provisions of this Ordinance relating to any inatter
expressly dealt with in this Ordinance;
'association' means The Hong Kong Anti-Tuberculosis
Association ;
'corporation' means the board of directors of the associa-
tion as incorporated by this Ordinance.
3. (1) The board of directors of the association and
their successors in office as hereinafter defined shall be a
body corporate and shall have the name of 'The Hong
Kong Anti-Tuberculosis Association,' 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) The members of the board of directors shall be
appointed in accordance with the constitution and shall for
the time being be deemed to be members of the corporation
upon notice of their appointment, and where such appoint-
ment is made to replace i retiring member of the board of
directors, upon notice in addition of such retirement, being
filed with the Registrar of Companies.
(3) Any such notice shall be signed by two of the
continuing or retiring members and shall be scaled with the
common seal of the corporation.
(4) The corporation shall (subject to compliance with
subsections (2) and (3)) consist of the persons holding office at
the date of this Ordinance corning into force, as members of
such board of directors and thereafter of the persons for the
time being duly elected and appointed in place of the above
or any of thern as their successors in accordance with the
constitution.
4. (1) The corporation shall have power to acquire,
accept leases of, purchase, take, hold and enjoy any lands,
buildings, messuages or tenemnts of what nature or kind
soever and wheresoever situate in the Colony, and also to
invest moneys upon mortgage of any lands, buildings,
iriessuages or tenements in the Colony or upon the
mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities of
any corporation or company carrying on business or having
an office in the Colony and also to purchase and acquire
all goods and chattels of what nature or kind soever.
(2) The corporation shall have power to grant, sell,
convey, assign, surrender, exchange, partition, yield up,
mortgage, demise, reassigii, transfer or otherwise dispose
of any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements, mortgages,
debentures, stocks, securities, goods and chattels vested in
the corporation on such ternis as to the corporation may
seem fit.
5. All deeds documents and other instruments requir-
ing the seal of the corporation shall be sealed with its
common seal in the presence of three members of the board
of directors and shall also be, signed by them, and such
signing shall be taken as sufficient evidence of the duc
scaling of such deeds documents and other instruments.
6. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or he 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.
55 of 1948. Short title. Interpretation. Incorporation. [s. 3 cont.] Powers of the corporation. Seal. Saving.
Abstract
55 of 1948. Short title. Interpretation. Incorporation. [s. 3 cont.] Powers of the corporation. Seal. Saving.
Identifier
https://oelawhk.lib.hku.hk/items/show/2141
Edition
1950
Volume
v6
Subsequent Cap No.
287
Number of Pages
2
Files
Collection
Historical Laws of Hong Kong Online
Citation
“HONG KONG ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION INCORPORATION ORDINANCE,” Historical Laws of Hong Kong Online, accessed May 6, 2024, https://oelawhk.lib.hku.hk/items/show/2141.