HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

LAWS OF HONG KONG

HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND

INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 1086





CHAPTER 1086.

HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND
INCORPORATION.

To provide for the incorporation of the members of the Hong

Kong Society for the Blind.

[27th January, 1956.]

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

2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires

'constitution' means the constitution of The Hong Kong Society

for the Blind approved from time to time by its members for

the time being.,

&,council' means the council of The Hong Kong Society for the

Blind.

3. The members of the Hong Kong Society for the Blind shall be a
body corporate. hereinafter called the corporation, and shall have the
name 'The Hong Kong Society for the Blind', 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 establish, operate, manage or maintain such homes, clinics
and other institutions for the blind or for the curing and
prevention of blindness as it may think fit;

(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, 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 land. 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, vessels,





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
Society for the Blind 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 council;

(c)a list of the names and addresses of the members of the
council, and any change therein, certified as correct by the
chairman of the council; 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 AU deeds, documents and other instruments requiring the
seal of the corporation shall be signed by the chairman and the
secretary of the council 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 4 of 1956. 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 4 of 1956. 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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