YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ORDINANCE

YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 320.

YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.

To provide for the incorporation of the direciors of the
Young Men's Christian Association of Hong Kong.

[1st June, 1923]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Young Men's
Christian Association Ordinance.

2. In this Ordinance, 'constitution' means the
constitution of the Young Men's Christian Association of
Hong Kong as approved from time to time by the directors
for the time being of the said association.

3. (1) The directors of the Young Men's Christian
Association of Hong Kong, and their successors in office
as hereinafter defined, shall be a body corporate, herein-
after called the corporation, and shall have the name of
'The Directors of the Young Men's Chrislian Association
of Hong Kong', 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) Directors shall be appointed in accordance with the
consiltutlon and shall for the time being be deemed to be
members of the corporation upon notice of their appoint-
ment, and of the retirement of the retiring directors (if any,)
whoin they have been appointed to replace, heing filed with
the Registrar of Companies.

(3) Any such notice shall be signed by two of the
continuing or retiring directors and be sealed with the

common seal of the corporation.

4. (1) The corporation shall have power to acquire,
aweept leases of, purchase, take, hold and enjoy any lands,
buildings, rnessuages 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 corporation or company,





and also to purchase, acquire and possess
boats and other goods and chattels of what nawre and kind
soever.

(2) The corporation shall further have power by deed
under its seal to grant, sell, Convey, assign, surrender,
exchange, partition, yield up, mortgage, demise,
transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings,
messuages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks,
funds, shares or securities, steam-lauches, boats, or other
goods and chattels, which are for the time being vested in
or belonging to the corporation, upon such terms as to the
corporation may seem fit.

5. All deeds and other instruments requiring the
corporate seal of the corporation shall be sealed M the
presence of two of the directors and shall be signed by
two of the directors.

6. All matters of internal management, including any
amendment of the constitution, shall be settled and carried
out in accordance with the constitution.

7. 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,
Originally 7 of 1923. Fraser 7 of 1923. Short title. Interpretation. Incorporation. Powers of corporation. [s. 4 cont.] Execution of documents. Internal management. Saving.

Originally 7 of 1923. Fraser 7 of 1923. Short title. Interpretation. Incorporation. Powers of corporation. [s. 4 cont.] Execution of documents. Internal management. Saving.

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