ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION.

ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE REGULATIONS.

(Cap. 1049, section 6).

[27th May, 1932.]

INTERPRETATION.

'College' means St. Stephen's College carried on by the corporation.

THE COUNCIL.

1. Members of the council, other than members ex officio, shall
vacate their office

(a)if they fail to attend meetings of the council for one whole
year.,

(b)if they cease to reside in Hong Kong or within one hundred
miles thereof for six calendar months without leave of the
council;

(c)at the expiration of three years from the date of their
appointment or re-appointment.

All such members shall be re-eligible.

MANAGEMENT.

2. The functions of the council shall be-

(a)to provide and maintain all necessary buildings, furniture and
apparatus for the use of the college;

(b)to take all measures necessary for raising funds and for
carrying on the work and administering the affairs of the
corporation;

(c) to appoint a treasurer, a secretary and an auditor;

(d)to appoint, on the nomination of the warden, assistant
masters and to dispense with their services;

(e)to fix from time to time the salaries and emoluments of
assistant masters and of servants or other persons employed
by the corporation;

(f)to fix from time to time the scale of, fees to be paid by
students;

(g)to make, rescind and alter regulations for the procedure of the
council and for the management of the corporation.





THE WARDEN.

3. The warden or in his absence the acting warden shall be
responsible for the internal management and discipline of the College
and shall periodically report thereon to the council.

MEETINGS OF nW COUNCIL.

4. Ordinary or special meetings of the council shall from time to time
be held for the dispatch of business, and may be adjourned from time to
time and from place to place. No meeting shall be valid unless at least
five members 'of council are present in person.

5. All ordinary meetings of the council shall be held in Hong Kong,
either at the College or at such other convenient place as shall be agreed
on by the council. or named in the notice convening the meeting.

6. At every meeting the patron or in his absence a member elected
by those present shall be chairman of the meeting.

7. All business brought before the ordinary meeting shall be
decided by a majority of votes of the members present and willing to
vote; and in case of an equality of votes the chairman of such meeting
shall have a casting vote.

8. Notwithstanding anything hereinbefore contained a special
meeting of the council may be held at any time or place without previous
notice:

Provided that no resolution shall be passed thereat unless it shall
be carried by the votes of an absolute majority of all the members of
council for the time being. No proxies shall be used at any meeting nor
shall the chairman have any casting vote at any special meeting.

9. All resolutions carried as aforesaid by a majority of the members
present at any ordinary meeting and all resolutions carried as aforesaid
by an absolute majority of the members for the time being at any special
meeting and all acts done pursuant to any such resolutions respectively
shall be deemed to be the resolutions and acts respectively of the
council.

10. Minutes of the proceedings of every meeting of the council
shall be entered in a book to be kept for that purpose and signed by the
chairman of such meeting or of the following meeting; and shall when so
entered and signed be prima facie evidence of the facts, therein stated.





11. The council may from time to time by resolution passed at one
meeting, and confirmed after due notice at a subsequent meeting held
within three months, make and afterwards annul such rules and
regulations for and in relation to the conduct of the business of the
corporation, as they may think fit.

12. The secretary or treasurer or any member of council may call an
ordinary meeting of the council by delivering to each of the other
members, or leaving at their respective dwelling-houses, or sending
them respectively through the post to their last known places of abode
in Victoria, Hong Kong, seven days' previous notice of such meeting,
stating the time and place of holding the meeting and the objects or
purposes for which the meeting is to be held. A notice so left or sent
shall be effective although the member of council for whom it is
intended may at the time be absent from home and may never actually
receive the notice.

FINANCE.

13. A report upon the College to be signed by the warden. with a
financial statement, shall be presented annually to the council, and a
copy thereof shall be transmitted to the local governing body in the
South China Mission for the information of the Church Missionary
Society. The secretary of the South China Mission shall be the medium
of communication between the council and the Church Missionary
Society.

14. A current account of the moneys of the corporation shall be
kept in the name of the treasurer on behalf of the corporation at such
bank as the council shall from time to time approve.

15. All receipts on behalf of the corporation from whatever source
shall be paid in to the credit of such account as soon as conveniently
may be, and all drafts on the account shall be signed by the treasurer.

16. In every year in which there shall be an available surplus of the
income over the expenditure, the council shall set aside and invest on a
reserve or sinking fund at least $1,200.00 as provision for extension, for
replacing buildings on expiration of leases and for unforeseen
contingencies.

17. Future investments may be of such a nature as the council
shall from time to time by resolution approve of, and shall not be limited
to strict trustee investments, and all investments may be from time to
time varied under the authority of a resolution of the council.

CITATION.

18. These regulations may be cited as the St. Stephen's College
Regulations.
17 of 1932, Schedule.

17 of 1932, Schedule.

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