CHATER MASONIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND ORDINANCE

CHATER MASONIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND ORDINANCE

LAWS OF HONG KONG

CHATER MASONIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND
ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 1007





CHAPTER 1007

CHATER MASONIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND

To provide for the incorporation of the Trustees of the Chater
Masonic Scholarship Fund.

[1 November 1929.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Chater Masonic Scholarship
Fund Ordinance.

1A. (1) The object of the Chater Masonic Scholarship Fund is to
provide scholarships for the sons and daughters of

(a)freemasons, without distinction of class or nationality, who are
members of any masonic bodies in the District of Hong Kong
and the Far East; and

(b)deceased freemasons who were members of any of such
masonic bodies as aforesaid.

(2) The scholarships provided under subsection (1) shall be at the
University of Hong Kong, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the
Hong Kong Polytechnic or any seat of higher learning situated outside
the Colony. (Replaced, 24 of 1981, s. 2)

(Added, 72 of 1975, s. 2)

2. (1) The trustees of the Chater Masonic Scholarship Fund and
their successors in office as hereinafter defined shall be a body
corporate, hereinafter called the corporation, and shall have the name of
'The Trustees of the Chater Masonic Scholarship Fund', 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) Trustees shall be appointed in accordance with the by~laws of
the corporation hereinafter referred to, and shall for the time being be
deemed to be successors in office of the first trustees and be members
of the corporation upon notice of their appointment, and of the
retirement of the retiring trustees (if any) whom they have been
appointed to replace, being filed with the Registrar of Companies.

(3) Any such notice shall be signed by 2 of the continuing or
retiring trustees and shall be sealed with the common seal of the
corporation.

(Amended, 33 of 1939, Supp. Schedule, G.N. 840/40)

3. (1) 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
situate, and also to invest moneys upon the purchase of or upon
mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements, or upon
bankers' fixed deposits or upon the mortgages, debentures, stocks,
funds, shares or securities of any government, municipality,
corporation, company or person and also to purchase, acquire and
possess any goods and chattels of what nature 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, reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands,
buildings, messuages, tenements. mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds,
shares or securities, or any 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.

4. (1) The corporation may make by-laws for its internal
management and control, and all such by-laws when agreed upon by the
corporation shall be binding on every member thereof. (Amended, 72 of
1975, s. 3)

(2) Amendments to the by-laws shall be made by the trustees in
general meeting, and at least 14 clear days' written notice of the
resolution to effect such amendment shall be given to each of the
trustees present in the Colony at the time.

(3) A copy of the by-laws certified as correct by -2 of the trustees
and sealed with the common seal of the corporation shall be deposited
and filed with the Registrar of Companies, and whenever such by-laws
are altered a copy thereof as altered and certified as aforesaid shall also
be forthwith deposited and filed with the said Registrar. (Amended, 33
of 1939, Supp. Schedule, G.N. 840/40)

5. All deeds and other instruments requiring the corporate seal of
the corporation shall be sealed in the presence of 2 of the trustees and
shall be signed by 2 of the trustees.

6. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed to affect the
rights of Her Majesty the Queen, Her 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 25 1929. (Cap. 270, 1950.) 33 of 1939. 72 of 1975. 24 of 1981. Short title. Object of Chater Masonic Scholarship Fund. Incorporation. Powers of corporation. Power to make by-law, method of amendment and the certification and deposit thereof. Execution of documents. Saving.

Originally 25 1929. (Cap. 270, 1950.) 33 of 1939. 72 of 1975. 24 of 1981. Short title. Object of Chater Masonic Scholarship Fund. Incorporation. Powers of corporation. Power to make by-law, method of amendment and the certification and deposit thereof. Execution of documents. Saving.

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