MUNSANG COLLEGE RULES

MUNSANG COLLEGE RULES

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION.

MUNSANG COLLEGE RULES.

(Cap. 1094, section 9).

[24th May, 1957.]

CITATION.

1. These rules may be cited as the Munsang College Rules.

THE COUNCIL.

2. Subject to the provisions of rules 3 and 4, members of the
Council shall hold office for life.

3. The Executive Committee of the Munsang Alumni Association
shall be entitled to elect one of its members to serve on the Council.
Such member, however, shall retire at the second ordinary meeting of
the Council held next after his election but shall be eligible for re-
election by such Executive Committee.

4. Members of the Council shall vacate office-

(a)upon failure to attend meetings of the Council for twelve
consecutive months; or

(b)upon ceasing to reside in Hong Kong or within one hundred
miles thereof for six months without leave of the Council.

5. The Council may appoint. subject to the provisions of
subsection (1) of section 4 of the Ordinance, additional members
thereto, and may fill any vacancy occurring therein.

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MANAGEMENT.

6. The functions of the Council shall be-

(a)to provide and maintain all necessary buildings, furniture and
apparatus for the use of the colleges and schools established
or maintained by the corporation;

(b)to take all measures necessary for raising funds and for
carrying on the work and administering the affairs of the
corporation;

(c)to elect a Chairman, a Vice-Chairman, an Honorary Secretary,
an Honorary Treasurer, Supervisors and an auditor who shall
be a person included in the authorized list of auditors kept
under the Companies Ordinance;





(d)to appoint Principals, acting Principals and Bursars, to fix their
remuneration and to dispense with their services.,

(e)to approve or reject recommendations by Principals or acting
Principals for appointments of Heads of Departments;

to fix the scale of fees to be paid by students.

DUTIES OF THE PRINCIPAL.

7. Principals and acting Principals shall be responsible for the
internal management and discipline of the colleges and schools
established or maintained by the corporation and shall have power

(a)subject to the approval of the Council, to appoint, dismiss or
suspend Heads of Departments;

(b)to engage. dismiss or suspend any teachers, clerks, servants,
and any other employees of such institutions employed by
the corporation; and

(c)subject to the approval of the Council to fix the salaries and
emoluments of all such persons, or any of them.

MEETINGS OF THE COUNCIL.

8. Ordinary or extraordinary meetings of the Council shall from time
to time be held for the dispatch of business. and may be adjourned from
time to time and from place to place. No meeting shall be valid unless a
majority of the members of the Council are present in person.

9. (1) Ordinary meetings shall be held twice a year: one in the
fourth week in January and one in the fourth week in July.

(2) All ordinary meetings shall be held in the Colony of Hong Kong
either

(a) at premises of the Munsang College; or

(b)at such other convenient place as may be agreed upon by the
Council, and named in the notice convening the meeting.

10. In the absence of the Chairman at any meeting the
ViceChairman or in his absence a member elected by those present shall
be chairman of the meeting.

11. All business brought before a meeting shall be decided by a
majority of votes of the members present; in case of an equality of votes
the chairman of such meeting shall have a casting vote.





12. All resolutions carried as aforesaid by a majority of the
members present and all acts done pursuant to any such resolutions
shall be deemed to be the resolutions and acts respectively of the
Council. 1

13. Minutes of the proceedings of every meeting of the Council
shall be entered in a book kept for that purpose and shall on approval
by the Council be signed by the chairman at the conclusion of such
meeting or by, the chairman of the following meeting; and shall when so
entered and signed be evidence of the facts therein stated.

14. (1) Notice of any Council meeting shall be signed by either the
Chairman, the Vice-Chairman, or the Honorary Secretary and shall be
deemed to have been delivered to the addresses if it is left or sent
through the post to their respective addresses registered with the
Registrar of Companies.

(2) Seven clear days' notice shall be given of every meeting,
stating the time and place of holding the meeting and the objects or
purposes for which the meeting is to be held.

(3) Any notice sent in accordance with the provisions of
paragraph (1) shall be effective although the member of Council to
whom it is intended may at the time be absent from his registered
address or may never actually receive the notice.

(4) Proxies shall not be permitted at any meeting.

FINANCE.

15. A report upon each and every college or school established or
maintained by the corporation together with appropriation account of
the expenses thereof for the next ensuing year shall be prepared and
signed by the appropriate Principal and Bursar jointly and shall be
presented to the Council at the second ordinary meeting in each year.

16. (1) A current account to be known as the 'No. 1 account'
shall be opened in the name of the Munsang College, or in such other
name as the Council may decide, at such bank as the Council may from
time to time approve, and all school fees received shall be paid into, and
all payments of salaries and other expenses for the running of the
colleges and schools of the corporation shall be paid out of, such
account.

(2) All cheques drawn on the above account on behalf of the
corporation shall be signed by any two of the following persons,
namely

(a) the Chairman;





(b) the Vice-Chairman; and

(c) the Honorary Treasurer; or

by any one of them and countersigned by either the appropriate
Principal or the appropriate Bursar.

17. (1) All donations of a special nature, or, if a sinking fund is ever
created, the moneys received therefor, shall be paid into a separate
current account to be known as the 'No. 2 account' to be opened in the
name of the Munsang College, or in such other name as the Council
may decide, at such bank as the Council shall from time to time approve.

(2) All cheques drawn on the above account on behalf of the
corporation shall be signed by the Chairman and any one member of the
Council.

18. In any year in which, in the opinion of the members of the
Council present at a meeting convened for the purpose, there shall be a
surplus of income over expenditure, the balance so resulting may be
transferred to the No. 2 account as provision for unforeseen
contingencies.

19. The Council may create, set aside and deal with in such manner
and for such purpose as the Council may think fit any provident fund or
sinking fund which the Council may deem necessary or expedient.
26 of 1957. Schedule. (Cap. 32.)

26 of 1957. Schedule. (Cap. 32.)

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