POK OI HOSPITAL INCORPORATION ORDINANCE ORDINANCE

POK OI HOSPITAL INCORPORATION ORDINANCE ORDINANCE

LAWS OF HONG KONG

POK 01 HOSPITAL INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 1068





CHAPTER 1068

POK 01 HOSPITAL INCORPORATION

To providefor the incorporation of the Board of Directors of the Pok
Oi Hospital.

[26 March 1954.]

1. This Ordinance may be c ited as the Pok Oi Hospital
Incorporation Ordinance.

2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires

'board of directors' means the board of directors of the hospital for the
time being appointed in accordance with the constitution;

'constitution' means the constitution of the hospital approved from
time to time by the board of directors and filed with the Registrar
of Companies; (Replaced, 9 of 1960, s. 2)

'hospital' means the Pok Oi Hospital of Yuen Long in the New
Territories. (Amended, 9 of 1960, s. 2)

3. (1) The board of directors of the hospital and their successors in
office shall be a body corporate, hereinafter called the corporation, and
shall have the name of 'Pok Oi Hospital', 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) The constitution shall be binding upon the corporation and a
board of directors shall be appointed in accordance with the
constitution the members of which shall be deemed to be members of
the corporation after notice of their appointment has been filed with the
Registrar of Companies. (Amended, 9 of 1960, s. 3)

(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 in 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 to the
corporation may seem fit:





Provided that the powers of direction conferred by this section
shall only be exercised for the purpose of endowing, supporting,
maintaining, carrying on or otherwise promoting the work of the
corporation as specified in the constitution.

(3) The corporation shall cause to be filed with the Registrar of
Companies the constitution as amended under subsection (4), and such
amendments shall make provision for an executive committee
responsible for the day to day administration of the hospital. (Added, 9
of 1960, s. 4)

(4) The corporation may from time to time amend the constitution
by resolution passed by a majority of not less than three-quarters of the
directors for the time being:

Provided that the consent in writing of the Secretary for Health and
Welfare shall have been obtained prior to the introduction of any such
resolution. (Added, 9 of 1960, s. 4. Amended, L.N. 94/74, L.N. 370181,
L.N. 14183 and L.N. 18183)

(S)- The corporation shall be deemed to have delegated to the
executive committee established under the constitution such of its
functions as are necessary to enable the executive committee to
administer efficiently the day to day affairs of the hospital, and may
delegate to such committee such other of its functions as it shall see fit.
(Added, 9 of 1960, s. 4)

5. All deeds, documents and other instruments requiring the seal of
the corporation shall be sealed with its common seal in the presence of
two members of the board of directors 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 10 of 1954. 9 of 1960. L.N. 94/74. L.N. 370/81. L.N. 14/83. L.N. 18/83. Short title. Interpretation. Incorporation. Powers of the corporation. Seal. Saving.

Originally 10 of 1954. 9 of 1960. L.N. 94/74. L.N. 370/81. L.N. 14/83. L.N. 18/83. Short title. Interpretation. Incorporation. Powers of the corporation. Seal. Saving.

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