YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ORDINANCE

YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ORDINANCE

LAWS OF HONG KONG

YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ORDINANCE

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CHAPTER 1M

YOUNG MZNIS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.

To provide for the incorporation of the directors of the Young
Men's Christian Association of Hong Kong.

[1st June, 1923.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Young Men's
Christian Association Ordinance.

2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires-
&CconstitutioW' means the constitution of the Young Men's Christian
Association of Hong Kong as approved from time to time by
the directors for the time being of the said association.

3. (1) The directors of the Young MeWs Christian Associa-
tion of Hong Kong, and their successors in office as hereinafter
defined, shall be a body corporate. hereinafter called the corpora-
tion, and shall have the name of 'The Directors of the Young
Men's Christian Association of Hong Kone', 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) Directors shall be appointed in accordance with the con-
stitution and shall for the time being be deemed to be members of
the corporation upon notice of their appointment, and of the retire-
ment of the retiring directors (if any) whom they have been
appointed to replace, being filed with the Registrar of Companies.
(Amended, 33 of 1939, Supp. Schedule, G.N. 840140)

(3) Any such notice shall be signed by two of the continuing
or retiring directors and be sealed with the common seal of the
corporation.
(Amended, 33 of 1939, Supp. Schedule, G.N. 840140)

4. (1) The corporation shall have power to acquire. accept
leases of, purchase. take, hold and enjoy any lands, buildings,
messuages or tenements of what nature or kind soever and where-
soever 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 corporation
or company, and also to purchase, acquire and possess steam-
launches. boats and other goods and chattels of what nature and
kind soever.

(2) The corporation shall further have power by deed under
its seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, exchange, parti-
tion, yield up. mortgage, demise, reassign, transfer or otherwise
dispose of any lands, buildings, messuages, tenements, mortgages,





debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities, steam-launches,
boats, or other goods and chattels, which are for the time being
vested in or belonging to the corporation, upon such terms as to
the corporation may seem fit.

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

6. All matters of internal management, including any
amendment of the constitution. shall be settled and carried out in
accordance with the constitution.

7. Nothing in this Ordinance shall aflect 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 7 of 1923. (Cap. 320, 1950.) 33 of 1939. Short title. Interpretation. Incorporation. Powers of corporation. Execution of documents. Internal management. Saving.

Originally 7 of 1923. (Cap. 320, 1950.) 33 of 1939. Short title. Interpretation. Incorporation. Powers of corporation. Execution of documents. Internal management. Saving.

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