SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF DISABLED CHILDREN INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF DISABLED CHILDREN INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

LAWS OF HONG KONG

SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF DISABLED CHILDREN
INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 1087





CHAPTER 1087.

SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF DISABLED CHILDREN
INCORPORATION.

To provide for the incorporation of the members of the Society for the
Relief of Disabled Children.

[2nd March. 1956.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Society for the Relief of
Disabled Children Incorporation Ordinance.

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

,,committee' means the committee of The Society for the Relief of
Disabled Children;

'constitution' means the constitution of The Society for the Relief of
Disabled Children approved from time to time by its members for
the time being.

3. The members of the Society for the Relief of Disabled Children
shall be a body corporate. hereinafter called the corporation, and shall
have the name---TheSociety for the Relief of Disabled Children', 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 disabled children or for the curing
and rehabilitating of disabled children 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 lands,
buildings, messuages or tenements in the Colony, or in
or on debentures, debenture-stocks, stocks, funds, shares
or securities of any corporation of 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 lands, 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 Society for the
Relief of Disabled Children 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 cor.
poration and any change thereto;

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

(c)a list of the names and addresses of the members of the
committee. and any change therein, certified as correct by the
chairman of the committee. 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 committee 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 sealing
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 6 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 6 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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