ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE REGULATIONS

ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE REGULATIONS

LAWS OF HONG KONG

ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 1049





CHAPTER 1049.

ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE INCORPORATION.

To provide for the incorporation of St. Stephen's College.

[27th May, 1932.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the St. Stephens College
Incorporation Ordinance.

2. (1) The council for the time being as hereinafter composed of St.
Stephen's College, Hong Kong. shall be a body corporate, hereinafter
called the corporation. and shall have the corporate name, 'St. Stephen's
College', 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) The council shall be composed of the following-

(a)the Bishop for the time being of Victoria, Hong Kong,
hereinafter referred to as the patron;

(b)the person for the time being occupying the position of
warden of the College, hereinafter referred to as the warden;

(c)not more than three persons nominated by the local
governing body of the South China Mission of the Church
Missionary Society;

(d)not more than seven persons nominated by the patron and
the warden jointly, of whom at least five shall be Chinese
gentlemen resident in the Colony of Hong Kong who have the
interest and welfare of the corporation at heart, and the
remaining two shall be members of the Church of England or
of a Church in China in communion with the Church of
England.

(3) The names of persons so appointed and nominated as aforesaid
and their successors shall be filed with the Registrar of Companies.

(4) The council shall have such powers and duties and shall hold
such meetings as are specified in this Ordinance and the regulations.

3. (1) The warden shall be appointed and may be removed by the
Church Missionary Society upon the recommendation of or after
consultation with the council. During the temporary absence of the
warden the council may appoint an acting warden who shall, while
acting, be a member of the council.

(2) For the purpose of the nomination mentioned in paragraphs (c)
and (d) of subsection (2) of section 2, a copy of a minute of the local
governing body of the South China Mission of the Church Missionary
Society and of the nomination signed by





the patron and warden respectively that the person has been
nominated a member of the council shall be sufficient for the
purposes of this Ordinance.
(3) The certificate of the Colonial Secretary that any person
was at the date of the certificate or had been on some previous
specified date a member of the council shall for all purposes be
conclusive evidence of that fact.

4. (1) The corporation shall carry on the work for which
the College was originally founded-namely, of offering to Chinese
youths a modem, liberal education, (special attention being given
to the English language and literature) upon Christian principles,
protestant and evangelical as professed by the Church of England.
(2) The corporation shall have power to acquire, accept, and
grant leases of, take, hold and enjoy any lands, buildings, mes-
suages or tenements of whatever kind or nature soever and where-
soever situate, and also to build. rebuild, alter, vary, renew,
maintain and repair any buildings, messuages or tenements, 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, cor-
poration or company and also to purchase, acquire and possess
vessels and other goods and chattels of whatsoever kind or nature.
(3) The corporation shall further have power by deed under
its seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, exchange, parti-
tion, yield up, mortgage, pledge, demise, reassign, transfer or
otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings, messuages, tenements,
mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities or other
goods and chattels, which are for the time being vested in or
belonging to the corporation, upon such terms as to the corpora-
tion may seem fit.

5. All deeds and other instruments requiring the corporate
seal of the corporation shall be scaled in the presence of two
members of the council and shall be signed by two members.

6. (1) The council may by resolution passed by the majority
of the council from time to time make such regulations as they
may at their discretion deem desirable for the administration of the
corporation and the management of the corporation's premises
and property of whatever description. Any regulations made by
the council shall be filed with the Registrar of Companies.
(2) There shall be no obligation on the council to obtain the
approval of the Governor in Council to such regulations nor shall
it be necessary to publish any such regulations.

7. 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.
Originally 17 of 1932. (Cap. 315, 1950.) Short title. Incorporation. Appointment of warden; appointment of members of council. Powers of corporation. Execution of documents. Power to make regulations. Saving.

Originally 17 of 1932. (Cap. 315, 1950.) Short title. Incorporation. Appointment of warden; appointment of members of council. Powers of corporation. Execution of documents. Power to make regulations. Saving.

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