ST. JOHN AMBULANCE ORDINANCE

ST. JOHN AMBULANCE ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 313.

ST. JOHN AMBULANCE.

To further and protect the activities in Hong Kong of the
St. john Ambulance Association and the St. John
Ambidance Brigade Overseas and to incorporate the
Director for the time being of the Ambulance Depart-
ment of the Order of St. john in Hong Kong and the
Treasurer wid Secrelary for the time being of the Hong
Kong Branch of the St. John Ambulance Association
as Custodian Trustees.
[25th January, 1935.]

WHAREAS the St. John Ambulance Association is a founda-
tion of an Order formerly designated the Grand Priory
of the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem
in England, which was duly incorporated by a Charter
granted on the 14th day of May, 1888 by Her late
Majesty Queen Victoria, and now designated the Grand
Priory in the British Realm of the Venerable Order of
the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem by virtue of a
Charter granted on the 12th day of June, 1926, by His
Majesty King George V :

AND WHEREAS the Order has shice, its incorporation formed
the St, john Ambulance Brigade from certified pupils
of the St. John Ambulance Association and divided it
into portions, that is to say, the St. John Ambulance
Brigade, which carries out its work within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the St. John
Ambulance Brigade Overseas, which carries out its
work in the Common wealth overseas, and has placed
each portion under the command of an officer who is
responsible to the Director of the Ambulance Depart-
ment of the Order AND WHEREAS in the year 1884 a
branch of the said St. John Ambulance Association was
established in the Colony of Hong Kong and is known
as the Hong Kong Branch of the St. John Ambulance
Association and is governed by a General Committee
known as the Hong Kong General Committee of the
St. John Ainbulance Association AND WHEREAS in the
year 1916 a District of the said St. John Ambulance
Brigade Overseas was established in the Colony of





Hong Kong and is now known as the Hong Kong
District of the St. John Anibulance Brigade Overseas
and is carried on under the general regulations
of the St. John Ambulance Brigade Overseas:

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the St. John
Ambulance OrdillIffice.

2. In this Ordinance--
'the Order' means the Grand Priory in the British Realm
of the Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of
Jerusalem ;
'association' means the Hong Kong branch of the St.
John Ambulance Association
'brigade' means the Hong Kong district of the St. john
Ambulance Brigade Overseas.

3. No person, other than the association or the
brigade, shall distribute or sell or expose for sale-
(a)any badge, token or emblem specifically adopted
for use of the associatLon or the brigade;
(b)any badge, token or emblem containing the words
'St. John Ambulance Association' or 'St. John
Ambulance Brigade' or any similar token or
emblem.

4. No person shall, except with the authority of the
Order, association or brigade or with other lawful authority
or lawful excuse, have in his possession-
(a)any badge, token or emblem specifically adopted by,
the Order, association or brigade for the use by
members thereof; or
(b)any badge, token or emblem contairting the words
'St. John Ambulance Association' or 'St. John
Ambulance Brigade'.


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 Order,
association or brigade for use by members thereof
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 member
of the Order, association or brigade as to be
calculated to deceive or mislead.

6. No member of the Order, association or brigade
shall, by virtue of his wearing, carrying or bearing any
badge, token or emblem of the Order, association or brigade
or otherwise, attempt to enforce or exercise authority other-
wise than in accordance with the regulations of the Order
and its departments.

7. (1) No person shall form, or work in connexion
with or be a member of, any organization which, without
authority from the Order, claims or purports to be the St.
John Ambulance Association or the St. John Ambulance
Brigade Overseas or any organization, other than the
association or the brigade, which uses the title the St. John
Ambulance Association or the St. John Ambulance Brigade
or the equivalent Chinese titles therefor or any title in any
language, with or without additional words or characters,
which so closely resemible the St. John Ambulance Associa-
tion or the St. John Ambulance Brigade as to be calculated
to deceive or mislead, or any organization which, by the
use of any such titles or otherwise, without due authority,
purports or claims to be connected with the Order, the
association or the brigade.


(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 association
or the brigade, which carries on or is intended to carry on
any work of a similar nature to that carried on by the
association or the brigade.

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

9. (1) The director for the time being of the ambulance
department of the Order in Hong Kong and the treasurer
and secretars, for the time being of the Hong Kong branch





of the St. John Ambulance Association as the executive
officers of the association are hereby incorporated under the
name of 'The Executive Officers of the Hong Kong Branch
of the St. John Ambulance Association', 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.

(2) The purposes of the corporation shall be to hold
all property both real and personal belonging to the associa-
tion and brigade in Hong Kong.

(3) 4ny real or chattel real property now vested in the
association and brigade in Hong Kong shall forthwith vest
in the corporation by virtue of this Ordinance.

(4) All stocks shares securities and things in action and
ail vessels goods and chattels now vested in the association
and brigade in Hong Kong or in any other person or
corporation for the purposes of the association or brigade
in Hong Kong shall forthwith be transferred to the
corporation.

(5) All real or chattel real property which may here-
after be acquired by the association or brigade in Hong
Kong shall be vested in the corporation.

(6) The disposition and management of the property
of the association and brigade in Hong Kong and the
exercise of any powers or discretions with respect thereto
shall be vested in the Hong Kong general committee of the
St. John Ambulance Association, hereinafter called the
general committee.

(7) As between the corporation and the general
committee and subject and without prejudice to the rights
of other persons the corporation shall have the custody of
all securities and documents of title relating to the property
of the association and brigade in Hong Kong but the
general committee shall have free access thereto and be
entitled to take copies thereof or extracts therefrom.

(8) The corporation shall do and perform or concur in
doing and performing all acts necessary to enable the general





committee to exercise their powers of disposition and
management or any other powers or discretion vested in
them.

(9) When any disposition by the corporation is
expressed to be made by the authority or direction of the
general committee the title of a purchaser shall not be
impeachable on the ground that no such authority or direc-
tion had in fact been given or that any authority or direction
was improperly carried out and a purchaser shall not either
before or on conveyance be concerned to make any inquiry
as to the authority of the corporation to make the disposition.

(10) All sums payable to or out of the income or capital
of the property of the association and brigade in Hong Kong
shall be paid to or by the corporation: Provided that the
corporation may allow all rents profits and income derived
from such property to be paid to or by the direction of the
general committee or into such bank to the credit of such
person as the general committee shall direct and in such
case shall be exonerated from seeing to the application
thereof and shall not be answerable for any loss or mis-
application thereof.

10. Notwithstanding anything herein contained the
association and brigade in Hong Kong shall not acquire any
immovable property in the Colony unless the consent of the
Governor in Council shall have been previously obtained.

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 director for the time being and the
treasurer and secretary for the time being and all instruments
requiring the signature of the corporation shall be signed
by such director, treasurer and secretary.

12. 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.
3 of 1935. Short title. Interpretation. Distribution of badges. Unauthorized possession of badges. Possession of unauthorized badges. Wrongful exercise of authority. Unauthorized bodies. Penalty. Incorporation. [s. 9 cont.] Immovable property shall not be acquired without consent. Execution of deeds. Saving.

3 of 1935. Short title. Interpretation. Distribution of badges. Unauthorized possession of badges. Possession of unauthorized badges. Wrongful exercise of authority. Unauthorized bodies. Penalty. Incorporation. [s. 9 cont.] Immovable property shall not be acquired without consent. Execution of deeds. Saving.

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