SAILORS HOME AND MISSIONS TO SEAMEN REGULATIONS

SAILORS HOME AND MISSIONS TO SEAMEN REGULATIONS

SAILORS HOME AND MISSIONS TO SEAMEN REGULATIONS

ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS

Regulation Page

1. Citation... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... A 2
2. Interpretation ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... A2

MANAGEMENT

3. Control and management of institute, etc . ... ... ... ... ... ... ... A2

4. Time for holding general meetings, and business to be transacted thereat ... A2

5. Requisition to convene special meeting .... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... A2

6. Power of chairman of the committee to convene meetings; chairman and

quorum thereof ........................... ... ... ... ... ... ... A2
7. Record of meetings ....................... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... A3
8. Method of voting ...................... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... A3

9. Appointment and duties of business manager ... ... ... ... ... ... A3

10.................................Use of institute; and powers of chaplain and business manager ... ... ... A3

11..............Duties of chaplain ........... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... A3

12.........................Prohibition against serving in committee ... ... ... ... ... ... ... A3

13.............................Power of appointment and dismissal of chaplain, etc . ... ... ... ... ... A3

14....................Sale and consumption of liquors ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... A4

RELIGIOUS SERVICES

15...........Use of chapel ................... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... A4

16......................Service and attendance to be voluntary ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... A4

17.................................Appointment of chartered accountants and honorary secretary ... ... ... A4

AUDITORS

18................Appointment of auditors .... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... A4

19..............Duties as auditors ........... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... A4

BANKERS

20................Appointment of bankers ..... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... A4

21. Duty to pay moneys into bank account ..... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... A5

22. Payment of capital moneys and the use thereof ... ... ... ... ... ... ...A5

23. Method of drawing and signing cheques .... ... ... ... ... ... ... A5

INVESTMENTS

24. Investment of endowment fund ............ ... ... .. . ... ... ... ...
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SAILORS HOME AND MISSIONS TO SEAMEN
REGULATIONS

(Cap. 1042, section 6)

[4 December 1959.]

1. These regulations may be cited as the Sailors Home and
Missions to Seamen Regulations.

2. In these regulations, unless the context otherwise
requires-

'committee' means the committee incorporated under the Ordin-
ance as 'The Sailors Home and Missions to Seamen';

'institute' means the premises used by the corporation in connexion
with its work.

MANAGEMENT

3. The supreme control and management of the institute and
of the premises and property of whatever description of the corpora-
tion shall be vested in the committee.

4. (1) General meetings of the committee shall be held in the
month of February and from time to time in each year on such day
and at such hour as the committee shall direct.

(2) The general meeting to be held in the month of February in
each year shall be called the annual general meeting and at such
meeting a report of all the affairs of the corporation and an account
of the receipts, expenditure and property of the corporation together
with a statement of accounts for the preceding year shall be
presented and there shall be elected a chairman, an honorary
secretary, chartered accountants and auditors for the ensuring year.
At such annual general meeting such other business shall be trans-
acted as may be necessary.

5. Special meetings of the committee may be convened at any
time on the requisition of not less than 4 members thereof by a
notice specifying the object of, the meeting and -at any special
meeting convened on such requisition no business shall be trans-
acted other than that specified in the requisition.

6. (1) General or special meetings of the committee shall be
convened (subject to regulation 5) by direction of the chairman of
the committee, and 7 days' notice in writing thereof shall be given by
the honorary secretary to the members of the committee then within
the Colony.





(2) At every general or special meeting of the committee the chair
shall be taken by a chairman to be nominated by the members of the
committee present of whom 4 shall be a quorum.

7. The honorary secretary shall keep a minute book of such
meetings, and proper entries shall be made therein of all business
transacted at every meeting.

8. The voting at general or special meetings of the committee shall
be decided by a show of hands.

9. (1) There shall be a business manager who shall be appointed by
the committee for such period on such salary and on such terms as the
committee may in their discretion think desirable and the salary shall be
paid out of the funds of the corporation.

(2) Subject to the control of the committee and the chaplain, the
business manager shall be entrusted with the upkeep and repair of the
buildings, furniture and fittings of the institute, the management of all
catering and messing arrangements and the office staff.

10. (1) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (2), the institute shall
be open to all men of Her Majesty's Navy and to officers and men of the
Mercantile Marine irrespective of their religion or nationality.

(2) Either the chaplain or the business manager shall have power to
refuse to admit to and also power to expel from the premises of the
institute any person whatever for any reason which such chaplain or
business manager may decide to be sufficient.

(3) Any person aggrieved by any such decision of the chaplain or
of the business manager may refer the matter to the committee for its
decision which shall be final.

11. The chaplain shall be in sole charge of the religious activities of
the institute and shall care for and attend to all social arrangements and
functions and to the visitation of ships and hospitals and he shall also
be in charge of the launch 'Dayspring' and of her crew and of any
other launch from time to time owned or chartered by the corporation for
its purposes.

12. Neither the chaplain nor the business manager shall be entitled
to serve as a member of the committee or to vote at any meetings
thereof but they may attend such meetings if the committee desires.

13. . The appointment or dismissal of the chaplain, assistant
chaplains and readers or any of them, shall be made by The Missions to
Seamen in London, such appointment or dismissal being subject to the
approval of the Bishop of the Diocese and made after consultation with
the committee.





14. Alcoholic liquors may be sold and consumed on the premises
of the institute, subject to such conditions and restrictions as the
committee may from time to time impose.

RELIGIOUS SERVICES

15. The chapel in the institute shall be used for divine service and
worship according to the rites and ceremonies of the Church of England
or for such services of any other Church as the chaplain or any person
acting in his place may approve.

16. Divine service and worship shall be voluntary and the
attendance thereat of any person using the institute shall also be
voluntary.

17. (1) At the annual general meeting the committee shall appoint

(a)a firm of chartered accountants to manage the financial affairs
of the institute and to be responsible for the collection of all
moneys due to the corporation and for the making of all
necessary payments; and

(b) an honorary secretary who shall-

(i) hold office until a successor is appointed; and

(11) perform such duties as may be delegated to him by the
committee.

(2) Pending and subject to any appointment under paragraph (1)
(a), the firm of Messrs. Lowe, Bingham & Matthews shall be the
chartered accountants of the corporation.

AUDITORS

18. At the annual general meeting there shall be elected annually
one or more auditors of the corporation.

19. (1) The auditor shall-

(a)examine and report upon all accounts and books of the
corporation; and

(b)if and when required by the committee, audit and report upon
any of such accounts and books.

(2) The accounts and books of the corporation shall be open for
inspection by the auditor at all reasonable times.

BANKERS

20. The bankers of the corporation shall be The Hongkong and
Shanghai Banking Corporation or such other bankers as the committee
may from time to time determine.





21. All subscriptions and pecuniary donations and the income of
investments and all other moneys from time to time forming part of the
general funds of the corporation shall on receipt thereof be .paid to the
credit of the corporation with its bankers.

22. All capital moneys shall be paid into a separate account with
the bankers of the corporation and shall be expended first on the cost of
building the institute and as to the balance towards forming an
endowment fund which shall be invested and controlled

by the committee and used in any way it thinks fit for the benefit of

the institute.

23. Cheques shall be drawn on the order of the committee and shall
be signed by the chartered accountants and counter-signed by 2
members of the committee.


24. All moneys standing to the credit of the endowment fund
shall be invested by the cormmittee in the corporate name of the
corporation or in the names of its nominees in the investments
authorized in the Ordinance and any such investments may be sold
and the proceeds thereof invested in other such investments as and
when the committee may direct.

G.N.A. 89/59. L.N. 66/70. L.N. 81/70. Citation. Interpretation. Control and management of institute, etc. Time for holding general meetings, and business to be transacted thereat. Requisition to convene special meeting. Power of chairman of the committee to convene meetings; chairman and quorum thereof. Record of meetings. Method of voting. Appointment and duties of business manager. Use of institute; and powers of chaplain and business manager. Duties of chaplain. Prohibition against serving in committee. Power of appointment and dismissal of chaplain, etc. Sale and consumption of liquors. Use of chapel. L.N. 66/70. Service and attendance to be voluntary. Appointment of chartered accountants and honorary secretary. Appointment of auditors. Duties as auditors. Appointment of bankers. Duty to pay moneys into bank account. Payment of capital moneys and the use thereof. Method of drawing and signing cheques. Investment of endowment fund.

G.N.A. 89/59. L.N. 66/70. L.N. 81/70. Citation. Interpretation. Control and management of institute, etc. Time for holding general meetings, and business to be transacted thereat. Requisition to convene special meeting. Power of chairman of the committee to convene meetings; chairman and quorum thereof. Record of meetings. Method of voting. Appointment and duties of business manager. Use of institute; and powers of chaplain and business manager. Duties of chaplain. Prohibition against serving in committee. Power of appointment and dismissal of chaplain, etc. Sale and consumption of liquors. Use of chapel. L.N. 66/70. Service and attendance to be voluntary. Appointment of chartered accountants and honorary secretary. Appointment of auditors. Duties as auditors. Appointment of bankers. Duty to pay moneys into bank account. Payment of capital moneys and the use thereof. Method of drawing and signing cheques. Investment of endowment fund.

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