HONG KONG JUVENILE CARE CENTRE INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

HONG KONG JUVENILE CARE CENTRE INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

LAWS OF HONG KONG

HONG KONG JUVENILE CARE CENTRE INCORPORATION

ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 1066





CHAPTER 1066.

HONG KONG JUVENILE CARE CENTRE
INCORPORATION.

To provide tor the incorporation ot the executive committee ot the
Hong Kong Juvenile Care Centre.

[18th December, 1953.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Hong Kong Juvenile Care
Centre Incorporation Ordinance.

2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires

'Centre' means the Hong Kong Juvenile Care Centre;

&&constitution' means the constitution of the Centre approved from
time to time by the executive committee for the time being of the
Centre, subject to the provisions of the Ordinance relating to any
matter expressly dealt with in the Ordinance;

'executive committee' means the executive committee of the Centre for
the time being appointed in accordance with the constitution.

3. (1) The executive committee of the Centre and their successors
in office shall be a body corporate. hereinafter called the corporation.
and shall have the name of 'The Hong Kong Juvenik Care Centre',
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 use a
common seal.

(2) The members of the executive committee shall be appointed m
accordance with the constitution and shall for the periods of their
respective appointments be members of the corporation upon notice of
their appointment, and where such appointment is made to replace a
retiring member of the executive committee, upon, in addition, notice of
such retirement, being filed with the Registrar of Companies. Any such
notice shall be signed by three of the continuing or retiring members
and shall be sealed with the common seal of the corporation.

(3) The executive committee shall be lawfully constituted
notwithstanding any vacancies occurring therein by death. absence.
resignation or incapacity of any member or any other cause.

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 wheresoever situate m the
Colony. and also to invest moneys upon mortgage of any lands.
buildings. debentures, stocks, funds, shares





or securities of any corporation or company carrying on business or
having an office in the Colony and also to purchase and acquire all
goods and chattels of what nature or kind soever.

(2) The corporation shall further have power to grant. sell, convey.
assign. surrender, exchange. partition. yield up. mortgage. demise.
reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands. buildings.
messuages or tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks. securities,
goods and chattels vested in the corporation on such terms as the
corporation may seem fit

5. All deeds documents and other instruments requiring the seal of
the corporation shall be sealed with its common seal in the presence of
three members of the executive committee and shall also be signed by
them and such signing shall be taken as sufficient prima facie evidence
of the due sealing of such deeds documents and other instruments.

6. 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 40 of 1953. Short title. Interpretation. Incorporation. Powers of the corporation. Seal. Saving.

Originally 40 of 1953. Short title. Interpretation. Incorporation. Powers of the corporation. Seal. Saving.

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