ST. PAUL'S COLLEGE COUNCIL INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

ST. PAUL'S COLLEGE COUNCIL INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

LAWS OF HONG KONG

ST. PAUL'S COLLEGE COUNCIL INCORPORATION
ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 1102





CHAPTER 1102.

ST. PAUL'S COLLEGE COUNCIL INCORPORATION.

To provide for the incorporation of St. Paul's College Council.

[25th May, 1962.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the St. Paul's Cofiege Council
Incorporation Ordinance.

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

'Chairman' means the Chairman of the corporation;

'corporation' means the St. Paul's College Council incorporated under
section 3;

'regulations' means the regulations of the corporation approved from
time to time by its members for the time being in accordance with
the regulations for the time being in force.

3. St. Paul's College Council shall be a body corporate and shall
have the corporate name 'Si. Paul's College Council', and in that name
shall have perpetual succession and may sue and be sued in all courts
in the Colony and shall have and may 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. (1) The corporation shall have full power-

(a)to manage, administer and operate St. Paul's College in
accordance with the purpose for which it was originally
founded, namely, the offering to Chinese youths of a modem,
liberal education in the English language (but including the
subject of Chinese language in the curriculum) upon Christian
principles, Protestant and Evangelical, as professed by the
Church of England, and now continued by the Chung Hua
Sheng Kung Hui;

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

(c)to build, rebuild, alter, vary, renew, maintain and repair any
buildings, messuages or tenements and to effect any
improvement thereto;

(d)to acquire, by purchase or otherwise, and possess vessels
and other goods and chattels of whatsoever kind or nature;

(e)to invest moneys on deposit in any bank in the British
Commonwealth or upon mortgage of any lands, buildings.
messuages or tenements, or upon the mortgage, deben-





tures, debenture-stocks, stocks, funds, shares or securities of
any government, municipality, corporation or com-

to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, exchange, partition,
yield up, mortgage, pledge, demise, let, reassign, transfer, or
otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings, messuages,
tenements, mortgages, debentures, debenturestocks, stocks,
funds, shares, securities, vessels, goods and chattels, for the
time being vested in or belonging to the corporation, upon
such terms as the corporation may deem fit;

(g)to borrow money upon such terms as the corporation shall
think fit, and to raise money by public or private subscription;

(h)to accept grant in aid and subsidy from the Education
Department; and

(i)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 regulations for the time being,
or the purposes aforesaid or any of them.

(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1), the cor-
poration shall be subject to the provisions of the Charities (Land
Acquisition) Ordinance. -

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

6. (1) The regulations of the corporation may be changed or
amended by the corporation at any time and from time to time in
accordance with the provisions of the said regulations for the time being
in force.

(2) Subject to this section the regulations of the corporation and
any amendments thereto shall be deemed to have been made under the
terms of this Ordinance.

(3) There shall be no obligation on the corporation to obtain the
approval of the Governor in Council to such regulations nor shall it be
necessary to publish any such regulations.

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

(a)notice of the address of the principal office of the corporation
and any change thereof;

(b)a copy of the regulations and any amendment thereto,
certified as correct by the Chairman: and





(c)a list of the names and addresses of the office-bearers and
members of the corporation and any change therein. certified
as correct by the Chairman.

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

(3) Any person may inspect any of the documents registered
under this section upon payment of such fee as may be prescribed
under section 305 of the Companies Ordinance for the inspection of a
document

(4) The corporation shall pay such fees for registering any
document with any public registry as may be prescribed under
Section 305 of the Companies Ordinance for the registration with
the Registrar of Companies of a document.

(5) The registration of the list mentioned in paragraph (c) of
subsection (1) shall be conclusive evidence of the facts contained in
such list.

8. (1) All deeds. documents and other instruments requiring the
seal of the corporation shall be sealed in the presence of the Chairman
or. in his absence, the Bishop's Commissary appointed under the
Bishop of Victoria Incorporation Ordinance and of the Principal of St.
Paul's College or, in his absence, the Acting Principal and shall be
signed by the Chairman or by the Bishop's Commissary and by the
Principal or by the Acting Principal. as the case may be.

(2) The seal shall be kept in the custody of the Chairman or, in his
absence from the Colony, in the custody of the Bishop's Commissary.

9. 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 16 of 1962. Short title. Interpretation. Incorporation. Power of corporation. (Cap. 305.) Members. Regulations. Registration with Registrar of Companies. (Cap. 32.) Execution of deeds. (Cap. 1004.) Saving.

Originally 16 of 1962. Short title. Interpretation. Incorporation. Power of corporation. (Cap. 305.) Members. Regulations. Registration with Registrar of Companies. (Cap. 32.) Execution of deeds. (Cap. 1004.) Saving.

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