HONG KONG PLAYGROUND ASSOCIATION ORDINANCE

HONG KONG PLAYGROUND ASSOCIATION ORDINANCE

LAWS OF HONG KONG

HONG KONG PLAYGROUND ASSOCIATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 1061





CHAPTER 1061

HONG KONG PLAYGROUND ASSOCIATION

To provide for the incorporation of the Hong Kong Playground
Association.

[21st September, 1951.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Hong Kong Playground
Association Ordinance.

(Amended, 26 of 1974, s. 2)

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

'Association' means the Hong Kong Playground Association;

'constitution'' means the constitution of the Hong Kong Playground
Association approved from time to time by its members for the time
being.

(Amended, 26 of 1974, s. 3)

3. The Association shall be a body corporate 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 Association may deem fit.

4. The objects of the Association shall be to provide recreational
facilities for the children and youth of the Colony for whom no facilities
or no adequate facilities exist and generally to promote their welfare.

(Amended, 26 of 1974, s. 4)

5. The Association shall have full power to do all such acts and
things as may be necessary or expedient for or conducive to the
carrying out of the aims and objects of the Association under its
constitution and without prejudice to the generality of such power the
Association 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 elsewhere 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, mortgage,
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 Association upon such terms as the Associam tion may
deem fit.

6. The Association shall consist of such members as may be
provided by its constitution.

7. The existing constitution of the unincorporated Association shall
be the constitution of the Association but the same may be changed or
amended by the Association at any time and from time to time in
accordance with the provisions of the constitution for the time being in
force.

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

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

10. Any person may inspect any of the documents registered by
the Association in pursuance of section 8, upon payment of such fee as
may be payable under any enactment relating thereto.

11. All deeds, documents and other instruments requiring the seal of
the Association shall be signed by the chairman of the executive
committee and the secretary of the Association or by such other person
or persons as the executive committee 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.

12. 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 31 of 1951. 26 of 1974. Short title. Interpretation. Incorporation. Objects of the Association. Powers of the Association. Members. Existing constitution to become constitution of Association. Filing of constitution and names of executive members. Registration fee. Inspection and search fee. Sealing of deeds. Saving.

Originally 31 of 1951. 26 of 1974. Short title. Interpretation. Incorporation. Objects of the Association. Powers of the Association. Members. Existing constitution to become constitution of Association. Filing of constitution and names of executive members. Registration fee. Inspection and search fee. Sealing of deeds. Saving.

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