DIOCESAN SCHOOL AND ORPHANAGE INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

DIOCESAN SCHOOL AND ORPHANAGE INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

LAWS OF HONG KONG

DIOCESAN SCHOOL AND ORPHANAGE INCORPORATION

ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 1017





CHAPTER 1017.

DIOCESAN SCHOOL AND ORPHANAGE
INCORPORATION.

To provide for the incorporation of the chairman of the Committee of
the Diocesan School and Orphanage.

[28th May, 1892.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Diocesan School and
Orphanage Incorporation Ordinance.

(Amended, 5 of 1924, s. 6)

2. The Chairman of the Committee of the Diocesan School
and Orphanage shall be a body corporate, and shall have the name
of 'The Chairman of the Committee of the Diocesan School and
Orphanage-, and by that name shall have perpetual succession,
and shall and may sue and be sued in all courts. and shall and
may have and use a common seal, and the said seal may break,
change, alter, and make. anew as to the said corporation may seem
fit. and the said corporation shall have full power to acquire,
accept leases of, purchase, take, hold, and enjoy any lands, build-
ings, messuages, or tenements of what nature or kind soever and
wheresoever situate in this Colony, and also to invest moneys on
mortgage of any lands. buildings, messuages, or tenements in the
Colony, or on the mortgages or 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 manner of goods and chattels whatsoever, and the said
corporation is hereby further empowered, by deed under its seal.
to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender and yield up, mortgage,
demise, reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands. build-
ings, messuages, and tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks,
funds, and securities, goods and chattels, vested in the said cor-
poration on such terms as to the said corporation may seem fit.
(Amended, 50 of 1911, s. 4, and 1 of 1912, Schedule)

3. All deeds, documents, and other instruments requiring the seal
of the said corporation shall be sealed therewith in the presence of the
Chairman of the Committee or his attorney duly authorized, and shall
also be signed by him or his attorney duly authorized, and such signing
shall be and be taken as sufficient evidence of the due sealing of such
deeds, documents. and other instruments.

(Amended, 50 of 1911; 51 of 1911; 1 of 1912, Schedule,. and 2 of
1912, Schedule)





4. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed to
affect the rights of Her Majesty the Queen, Her Heirs or Suc-
cessors, 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.
(Replaced, 37 of 1950, Schedule)
Originally 10 of 1892. (Cap. 280, 1950.) 50 of 1911. 51 of 1911. 1 of 1912. 2 of 1912. 5 of 1924. 37 of 1950. Short title. Incorporation of Chairman of Committee of Diocesan School and Orphanage. Use of seal of corporation. Saving.

Originally 10 of 1892. (Cap. 280, 1950.) 50 of 1911. 51 of 1911. 1 of 1912. 2 of 1912. 5 of 1924. 37 of 1950. Short title. Incorporation of Chairman of Committee of Diocesan School and Orphanage. Use of seal of corporation. Saving.

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