HONG KONG COUNCIL OF SOCIAL SERVICE INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

HONG KONG COUNCIL OF SOCIAL SERVICE INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

LAWS OF HONG KONG

HONG KONG COUNCIL OF SOCIAL SERVICE

INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 1057





CHAPTER 1057.

HONG KONG COUNCIL OF SOCIAL SERVICE
INCORPORATION.

To provide for the incorporation of the Hong Kong Council of
Social Service.
[9th March. 1951.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Hong Kong Council
of Social Service Incorporation Ordinance.

2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires-
$&constitution' means the constitution of the Hong Kong Council
of Social Service approved from time to time by its members
for the time being.

3. The Hong Kong Council of Social Service shall be a body
corporate, hereinafter called'the corporation, and in that name
shall have perpetual succession and shall and may sue and be
sued in all courts in the Colony and may have and use a common
seal, and may from time to time break, change, alter and make
anew the said seal as to the corporation may deem fit.

4. The corporation shall have full power-
(a)to acquire. by purchase, lease, exchange or otherwise,
hold and enjoy land, buildings, messuages or tenements
of what nature or kind soever and wheresoever situate.
whether in the Colony or elsewhere.
(b)to acquire, by purchase or otherwise. goods and chattels
of what nature or kind soever;
(c)to invest moneys on deposit in any bank in the Colony
or in any government bonds, or on mortgage of any land,
buildings, messuages or tenements in the Colony or else-
where, or in or on debentures. debenture-stocks, stock.
funds, shares or securities of any corporation or company
carrying on business in the Colony or elsewhere; and
(d)to grant sell, convey, assign, surrender, yield up, mort-
gage, demise, let. reassign, transfer, or otherwise dispose
of, any land, buildings, messuages, tenements, mortgages,
debentures, debenture-stock. funds, securities, goods and
chattels vested in the corporation, upon such terms as the
corporation may deem fit.

5. The corporation shall consist of such members as pro-
vided by its constitution.

6. The existing constitution of the unincorporated Hong
Kong Council of Social Service shall be the constitution of the
corporation, but the same may be changed or amended by the
corporation at any time and from time to time in accordance with
the provisions of the constitution for the time being in force.





7. A copy of the constitution of the corporation and of any
amendment thereto. and a list of the names and addresses of the
members of the executive committee of the corporation for the
time being, certified in each case as correct by the chairman of
the executive committee or by the secretary of the corporation.
shall be forwarded to the Registrar of Companies for registration.

& The corporation shall pay such fee for registering any
document with any public registry as may be payable under any
enactment relating thereto.

9. Any person may inspect any of the.documents registered
by the corporation in pursuance of section 7. upon payment of
such fee as may be payable under any enactment relating thereto.

10. AU deeds. documents and other instruments requiring the
seal of the corporation shall be signed by the chairman of the ex-
ecutive committee and the secretary.of the corporation or by such
other person or persons as the executive committee shall from time
to time appoint and such signing shall be taken as sufficient
evidence of the due scaling of such deeds, documents and other
instruments.

11. 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 7 of 1951. Short title. Interpretation. Incorporation. Powers of corporation. Members. Existing constitution to become constitution of corporation. Filing of constitution and names of executive members. Registration fee. Inspection and search fee. Sealing of deeds. Saving.

Originally 7 of 1951. Short title. Interpretation. Incorporation. Powers of corporation. Members. Existing constitution to become constitution of corporation. Filing of constitution and names of executive members. Registration fee. Inspection and search fee. Sealing of deeds. Saving.

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