HONG KONG CHRISTIAN COUNCIL INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

HONG KONG CHRISTIAN COUNCIL INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

LAWS OF HONG KONG

HONG KONG CHRISTIAN COUNCIL INCORPORATION

ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 1083





CHAPTER 1083.

HONG KONG CHRISTIAN COUNCIL INCORPORATION.

To provide for the incorporation of the members of the Hong Kong
Christian Council.

[16th September,'1955.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Hong Kong Christian
Council Incorporation Ordinance.

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

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

3. The members of the Hong Kong Christian Council shall be a
body corporate, hereinafter called the corporation, and shall have the
name 'The Hong Kong Christian Council 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, and may
from time to time. break, change, alter and make anew the said seal as
the corporation may deem fit.

4. The corporation shall have full power-

(a)to operate. manage and maintain such cemeteries as the
corporation shall be permitted by law to operate, manage or
maintain;

(b)to acquire. accept leases of, purchase, take, or otherwise hold
and enjoy any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements of
what nature or kind soever and wheresoever situate;

(c)to acquire. by purchase or otherwise, vessels, goods and
chattels of what nature or kind soever;

(d)to invest moneys on deposit in any bank in the Colony or in
any government bonds or on mortgage of any kind, buildings.
messuages or tenements in the Colony, or in or on
debentures, debenture-stocks, stocks, funds, shares or
securities of any corporation or company carrying on
business in the Colony;

(e)to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, yield up. mortgage,
demise, let, reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of, any
land, or buildings, messuages, tenements, mortgages,
debentures, debenture-stocks, funds, securities, vessel,
goods and chattels for the time being vested in the
corporation. upon such terms as the corporation may deem
fit;

to erect any buildings. messuages or tenements and effect
any improvement thereto;





(g)to borrow money upon such terms as the corporation shall
think fit. and to raise money by public or private subscription;
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 purposes
aforesaid or any of them.

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

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

7. (1) The corporation shall forward to the Registrar of Companies
for registration the following

(a)notice of the.address of the registered office of the corporation
and any change thereto;

(b)a copy of the constitution and any amendment thereto,
certified as correct by the chairman of the corporation;

(c)a list of the names and addresses of the members of the
Executive Committee of the corporation, and any change
therein, certified as correct by the chairman; and

(d)the name and address of any person appointed under section 8
to sign deeds. documents and other instruments.

(2) Notification in accordance with subsection (1) shall be made
within twenty-eight days of any amendment or change, as the case may
be,

.(3) Any person may inspect any of the documents registered under
this section.

(4) A-fee of five dollars shall be payable for registering any
document under this section.

(5) A fee of one dollar shall be payable for inspecting the
documents filed with the Registrar of Companies under this Ordinance.

L All deeds, documents and other instruments requiring the seal of
the corporation shall be signed by the chairman and the secretary of the
corporation or by such other person or persons as the corporation 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.





9. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed to
affect the rights of Her Majesty the Queen. Her Heirs or Succes-
sors, 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 39 of 1955. Short title. Interpretation. Incorporation. Powers of corporation. Members. Existing constitution to become constitution of corporation. Registration with Registrar of Companies. Sealing of deeds. Saving.

Originally 39 of 1955. Short title. Interpretation. Incorporation. Powers of corporation. Members. Existing constitution to become constitution of corporation. Registration with Registrar of Companies. Sealing of deeds. Saving.

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