HONG KONG HOUSING SOCIETY INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

HONG KONG HOUSING SOCIETY INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

LAWS OF HONG KONG

HONG KONG HOUSING SOCIETY

INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 1059





CHAPTER 1059

HONG KONG HOUSING SOCIETY INCORPORATION

To providefor the incorporation of the Hong Kong Housing Society.

[18 May 1951.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Hong Kong Housing
Society Incorporation Ordinance.

2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires-

'constitution' means the constitution of the Hong Kong Housing
Society approved from time to time by its members of the time
being.

3. The Hong Kong Housing Society shall be a body corpor-
ate, 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 and tenements of
what nature or kind soever in the Colony of Hong Kong;

(b)to acquire, by purchase or otherwise, vessels, 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 morigage of any land,
buildings, messuages or tenements in the Colony, or in or
on debenture, debenture-stocks, stocks, funds, shares or
securities of any corporation or company carrying on
business in the Colony;

(d)to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, yield up, mort-
gage, demise, let, reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of,
any land, or buildings, messuages, tenements, mortgages,
debentures, debenture-stock, funds, securities, vessels,
goods and chattels for the time being vested in the Society,
upon such terms as the Society may deem fit;

(e)to erect any buildings, messuages or tenements and etTect
any improvement thereto;

to borrow money upon such terms as the Society shall
think fit, and to raise money by public or private sub-
scription;





(g)to enter into any agreement and engage any contractor or
other agent; and

(h)generally to do such other things as may appear to be
incidental or conducive to the aims and objects of the
corporation as provided by its constitution, or the pur-
poses aforesaid or any of them.

5. The corporation shall consist of such members as may be
provided by its constitution.

6. The existing constitution of the unincorporated Hong
Kong Housing Society 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 and of any
amendment thereto, certified in each case as correct by the chairman
of the executive committee or by the Executive Director of the
corporation, shall be forwarded to the Registrar of Companies for
registration.
(A mended, 79 pf 1979, s. 2)

8. 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. All deeds, documents and other instruments requiring the
seal of the corporation shall be signed by the chairman of the
executive committee and the Executive Director 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 sealing of such deeds, documents and
other instruments.
(Amended, 79 of 1979, s. 2)

11. Nothing in this Ordinance shall afFect or be deemed to
affect the rights of Her Majesty the Queen, Her Heirs or Successors,
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 1951. 79 of 1979. 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 17 of 1951. 79 of 1979. 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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