ZETLAND HALL TRUSTEES INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

ZETLAND HALL TRUSTEES INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 321.

ZETLAND HALL TRUSTEES INCORPORATION.

Toanzend bite law relattibg to bite incorporation of the
Zetland Hall Trustees.
[29th September, 1922.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Zetland Hall
Trustees Incorporation Ordinance.

2. (1) The persons who have been certified by the
secretary of the Zetland Hall Trustees by statutory,
declaration made by him and filed with the Registrar of
Companies on the 21st day of April, 1949, to be the elected
representatives of the lodges specified in the Schedule hereto
together with the persons who shall from time to time be
certified in the same manner by the secretary of the Zetland
Hall Trustees as being the elected representatives of other
lodges, the names of which shall be from time to time added
to those specified in the Schedule in manner provided by
subsection (2) and their successors in office as hereinafter
defined shall be a body corporate, hereinafter called the
corporation, and shall have the name 'The Zetland Hall
Trustees' and by that name shall have perpetual succession
and may sue and be sued in all courts in the Colony and
and may have and use a common seal.

(2) In addition to the lodges specified in the Schedule
it shall be lawful for the trustees to invite any other lodge
hereafter established in Hong Kong in accordance with the
English Scottish or Irish Constitutions to have its name
added to those appearing in the Schedule and upon the
acceptance of such invitation to nominate such lodge accord-
ingly; any such nomination shall be made in writing under
the hand of the chairman of the trustees and shall be filed
with the Registrar of Companies. Notice of the addition
of the name of any such lodge to the Schedule shall be given
by the corporation in the Gassette within fourteen days of the
the making of the nomination which shall thereupon take
effect as if the name of the lodge so nominated had been
included in the Schedule originally.

(3) The corporation shall, subject to the licence of the
Governor having been previously obtained in each case,





have full 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
situate in the Colony.

(4) The corporation shall also have full power by
deed under the corporate seal to grant, sell, convey, assign,
surrender and yield up, mortgage, demise, reassign,
tiansfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings,
messuages and tenements for the time being vested in theni
on such terms as they may deem expedient.

3. (1) If at any time any of the lodges specified in
the Schedule or whose names shall have been added thereto
in manner hereinbefore provided shall wish to appoint a
new representative in succession to or in substitution for
the representative specified in the statutory declaration
referred to in section 2 it shall be lawful for the said lodge
so to do and the said new representative shall be deemed
to be a trustee in succession to or in substitution for the
said former representative upon the filing with the
Registrar of Companies of a certificate of the fact of such
election specified under the hand of the secretary of the
Zetland Hall Trustees.

(2) The power of electing a new representative shall
apply in the case of persons elected under subsection (1)
in the same way as it applies in the case of the persons
specified in the statutory declarations referred to in sub-
section (1) of section 2.

4. The corporation shall manage and maintain a hall
or halls, to be used, occupied and enjoyed as a meetino-
place for the members of the lodges the names of which
appear in the Schedule or which shall have been from time
to time added thereto in accordance with the provisions
of section 2, and may permit the said hall or halls to be
used, occupied and enjoyed as a meeting place for the

members of other masonic lodges, chapters and bodies, and
may at their discretion furnish and equip such hall or
halls. [5

5. The corporation may charge such fees, rents and
charges for the use of the properties of the corporation as
may seem expedient to the corporation. [6





6. The corporation may from time to time give and
pay over in equal shares to the lodges specified in the
Schedule together with other lodges whose names have
from time to time been added to the Schedule in manner
provided in section 2 any funds not required for the purposes
of the rimintenance or development of the properties of the
corporation. [7

7. (1) The chairman of the trustees shall hold office
for one year froni ihe ist day of January in each year and
shall be appointed from the trustees representing the lodges
working under the English Constitution.

(2) Save as herein provided, three trustees personally
present shall be a quorum for the purpose of any meeting of
ffic trustees and for the exercise of any of their corporate
powers Provided that no quormn shall be deemed duly
constituted unless half at least of the trustees present
represent lodges working under the English Constitution.

(3) A meeting of the trustees may be convened by any
one of them, and all questions arising at any such meeting
shall be decided by the votes of a majority of the trustees
present and voting at stich a meeting. In the event of
equality of votes, the chairman shall have a second or
casting vote. [8

8. (1) All deeds, documents and other instruments
requiring the corporate seal of the corporation shall be
sealed by one of the trustees wid signed by not less than
three of the trustees.

(2) All documents which are required by law to be
signed by the corporation shall be signed by three of the
trustees. [9

9. There shall be payable by the corporation to the
Registrnr of Companies a fee of three dollars on each and
every statutory declaration nomination or certificate made
and filed under the provisions of this Ordinance and a fee
of one dollar shall be payable for every search of the
file. [10





10. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed
to affect the rights of His Majesty the King, His Heirs and
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 tinder them.
[11

SCHEDULE. [s. 2.]

Zetland Lodge No. 525 E.C.
Victoria Lodge No. 1026 E.C.
Perseverance Lodge No. 1165 E.C.
United Seryice Lodge No. 1341 E.C.
Corinthian Lodge of Amoy No. 1806 E.C.
Lodge Star of Southern China No. 2013 E.C.
University Lodge No. 3666 E.C.
Swatow Lodge No. 3705 E.C.
Cathay Lodge No. 4373 E.C.
Lodge St. John No. 618 S.C.
Naval and Military Lodge No. 848 S.C.
Eastern Scotia Lodge No. 923 S.C.
Shamrock Lodge No. 712 I.C.
Originally 23 of 1922. Fraser 23 of 1922. 20 of 1949. Short title. Incorporation of trustees. 20 of 1949, s. 2. Schedule. 20 of 1949, s. 2. [s. 2 cont.] Successors in office. 20 of 1949, s. 3. Use of property. 20 of 1949, s. 3. Fees and rents for use of property. Apportionment of surplus funds. 20 of 1949, s. 6. Meetings of trustees. 20 of 1949, s. 7. Execution of documents. Fees. 20 of 1949, s. 8. 20 of 1949, s. 9.

Originally 23 of 1922. Fraser 23 of 1922. 20 of 1949. Short title. Incorporation of trustees. 20 of 1949, s. 2. Schedule. 20 of 1949, s. 2. [s. 2 cont.] Successors in office. 20 of 1949, s. 3. Use of property. 20 of 1949, s. 3. Fees and rents for use of property. Apportionment of surplus funds. 20 of 1949, s. 6. Meetings of trustees. 20 of 1949, s. 7. Execution of documents. Fees. 20 of 1949, s. 8. 20 of 1949, s. 9.

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