SAILORS HOME AND MISSIONS TO SEAMEN INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

SAILORS HOME AND MISSIONS TO SEAMEN INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

LAWS OF HONG KONG

SAILORS HOME AND MISSIONS TO SEAMEN

INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 1042





CHAPTER 1042

SAILORS HOME AND MISSIONS TO SEAMEN
INCORPORATION

To provide for the incorporation of the Sailors Home and Missions to Seamen.

[8 August 1930]

Originally 8 of 1930 (Cap. 308 R. Ed. 1950) 33 of 1939, R. Ed. 1964, 39 of
1989

1. Short title

This Ordinance may be cited as the Sailors Home and Missions to Seamen
Incorporation Ordinance.

2. Incorporation

(1) The committee for the time being of the Sailors Home and Missions to
Seamen shall be a body corporate, hereinafter called the corporation, and shall have
the corporate name, 'The Sailors Home and Missions to Seamen', and in that name
shall have perpetual succession and shall and may sue and be sued in all courts in
Hong Kong and shall and may have and use a common seal. (Amended 33 of 1939;
G.N. 840 of 1940 Supp. Schedule; 39 of 1989 s. 4)

(2) The committee shall be composed of the following---

(a)the Bishop of the Church of England known as the Bishop of
Victoria, for the time being officiating in Hong Kong; (Amended 39 of
1989 s. 4)

(b)the person for the time being performing the duties of Director of
Marine;

(e)the person for the time being in charge of the business of Jardine,
Matheson & Company Limited, in Hong Kong;

(d)2 persons who shall be nominated by The Hong Kong General
Chamber of Commerce with power to such Chamber to fill up any
vacancy occurring in any of such nominees from time to time;

(e)2 persons nominated by The Missions to Seamen in London with
power to the same body to fill up any vacancy occurring in any of
such nominees from time to time;

a representative of Her Majesty's Navy appointed by the aforesaid
members of the committee;

(g)such other persons, one of whom must be the honorary treasurer of
the corporation, not exceeding at any one time 4 in number as may
from time to time be co-opted by the other members of the committee
with power to the committee to fill up any vacancy





occurring from time to time in the co-opted members.

(Amended 33 of 1939; G.N. 840 of 1940 Supp. Schedule)

(3) The committee shall have such powers and duties and shall hold such
meetings as are specified in this Ordinance and in the regulations made thereunder.
(Amended 33 of 1939; G.N. 840 of 1940 Supp. Schedule)

3. Appointment of members of committee

(1) For the purposes of the nomination mentioned in section 2(2)(d) and (e) a
copy of a minute purporting to be a copy of a minute of the committee of The Hong
Kong General Chamber of Commerce and a copy of a minute purporting to be a copy
of a minute of the committee of The Missions to Seamen in London respectively
that a person has been nominated a member of the committee shall be sufficient.
(Amended 33 of 1939; G.N. 840 of 1940 Supp. Schedule)

(2) The certificate of the Chief Secretary that any person was at the date of the
certificate or had been at some previous specified date a member of the committee
shall for all purposes be conclusive evidence of that fact. (Amended 39 of 1989 s. 5)

4. Objects of corporation

(1) The corporation shall carry on the work and objects heretofore carried on
both by the trustees of the Sailors Home and by The Missions to Seamen in Hong
Kong, which, as regards the trustees of the Sailors Home, are the care of officers
and men of the Mercantile Marine irrespective of their religion and also the
provision of a suitable institute or home for the seafaring classes and officers and
men aforesaid, and as regards The Missions to Seamen in Hong Kong are the
provision of an institute for and the spiritual welfare of the seafaring classes and in
pursuance of such work and objects the use of every means consistent with the
principles and accepted practice of the Church of England; and the corporation shall
continue to carry on such work and objects.

(2) The corporation shall promote the spiritual moral and physical well-being
of seafarers and their families at home and overseas and in pursuance of such
object the corporation may use any means consistent with the principles and
accepted practice of the Church of England or within a Province of the Anglican
Communion, the principles and received practice of that Province.

(Replaced 39 of 1989 s. 2)

4A. Powers of corporation

(1) The corporation shall have power to acquire, accept and grant leases of,
take, hold and enjoy any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements of what kind or
nature soever and wheresoever situate, 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 government,
municipality, corporation or company, and also to purchase, acquire and
possess vessels and other goods and chattels of whatsoever kind or nature.
(2) The corporation shall further have power by deed under its seal to
grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, exchange, partition, yield up, mortgage,
pledge, demise, reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of whether for valuable
consideration or by way of gift or donation or otherwise any lands, buildings,
messuages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, funds, moneys, stocks, shares or
securities, or other goods and chattels, which are for the time being vested in or
belonging to the corporation, and may use and disburse the funds income
principal and other moneys belonging to the corporation in pursuance of the
objects of the corporation in such manner and upon such terms as the
corporation may think fit.
(Added 39 of 1989 s. 3)

5. Execution of documents
All deeds and other instruments requiring the seal of the corporation shall
be sealed in the presence of 3 members of the committee and shall be signed by
3 members.

6. Power to make regulations
The corporation may, subject to the approval of the Governor in Council,
by a resolution passed by the majority of the committee, by regulation provide,
from time to time as may in its discretion seem desirable, for the administration
of the corporation and the management of the premises and property of
whatever description thereof, with the exception that regulation 11 and that
part of regulation 13 which relates to the chaplain shall not in any way be
altered except with the consent of The Missions to Seamen in London.

7. Nothing herein to affect the Chater Missions to Seamen
Endowment Fund save as herein provided
Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed to affect the Chater
Missions to Seamen Endowment Fund save that the corporation shall be
substituted for the Missions to Seamen in Hong Kong mentioned in clause 4 of
the deed of trust dated 4 May 1923.

8. Saving
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.

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