THE ST. STEPHEN'S GIRL'S COLLEGE COUNCIL INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

THE ST. STEPHEN'S GIRL'S COLLEGE COUNCIL INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

LAWS OF HONG KONG

THE ST. STEPHEN'S GIRLS' COLLEGE COUNCIL

INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 1121





CHAPTER 1121.

THE ST. STEPHEN'S GIRLS' COLLEGE
COUNCIL INCORPORATION.

To provide for the incorporation of The St. Stephen's Girls' College
Council.

[3rd May, 1968.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as The St. Stephen's Girls' College
Council Incorporation Ordinance.

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

'constitution' means the constitution of The St. Stephen's Girls' College
Council approved from time to time by its members for the time
being in accordance with the constitution for the time being in
operation;

'corporation' means the body incorporated by section 3.

3. The St. Stephen's Girls' College Council shall be a body
corporate, and shall have the name 'The St. Stephen's Girls' 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.

4. The corporation shall have full power-

(a)to manage, administer and operate St. Stephen's Girls' Cofiege;

(b) subject to the provisions of the Charities (Land Acquisition)
Ordinance, to acquire, accept lesses of, purchase,
take or otherwise hold and enjoy and land, buildings,
messages or tenements of what nature or kind soever
and wheresoever situate;

(c)to acquire, by purchase or otherwise, goods and chattels of
any kind or description;

(d)to invest moneys on deposit in any bank in the Colony or
elsewhere within the British Commonwealth or in any Hong
Kong or British Commonwealth 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 or elsewhere within the
British Commonwealth;

(e)to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, yield up, mortgage,
demise, let, reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of, any
land, buildings, messuages, tenements, mortgages,





debentures, debenture-stocks, 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
subscriptions;

(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 for the time being
or for carrying into effect the provisions of this Ordinance.

5. On the commencement of this Ordinance the corporation shall
succeed to all the property, rights, privileges, obligations and liabilities
of the unincorporated The St. Stephen's Girls' Cofiege Council.

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

7. All the existing members of the unincorporated The St. Stephen's
Girls' College Council shall be the first members of the corporation.

8. The existing constitution of the unincorporated The St. Stephen's
Girls' Cofiege Council shall be the constitution of the corporation:

Provided that the same may be changed or amended by the
corporation from time to time in the manner provided by the constitution
for the time being in operation.

9. (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
corporation and any change therein, certified as correct by the
chairman of the corporation; and

(d)the name and address of any person appointed under section
10 to sign deeds, documents and other instruments and any
change therein, certified correct by the chairman of the
corporation.





(2) Notification in accordance with subsection (1) shall be made
within twenty-eight days or in the case of any amendment, change or
appointment, within twenty-eight days of such amendment, change 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 fee for registering any
document under this section as is specified in the Eighth Schedule to
the Companies Ordinance, as if the corporation were a company not
having a share capital.

10. (1) The seal of the corporation shall not be affixed to any deed,
document or instrument except by the authority of a resolution of the
corporation.

(2) 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 sealing of such deeds, documents and
other instruments.

11. 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 69 of 1968. Short title. Interpretation. Incorporation. Power of corporation. (Cap. 305.) Vesting of property. Members. Existing members to become members. Existing constitution to become constitution of the corporation. Registration with Registrar of Companies. (Cap. 32.) (Cap. 32.) sealing of deeds. Saving.

Originally 69 of 1968. Short title. Interpretation. Incorporation. Power of corporation. (Cap. 305.) Vesting of property. Members. Existing members to become members. Existing constitution to become constitution of the corporation. Registration with Registrar of Companies. (Cap. 32.) (Cap. 32.) sealing of deeds. Saving.

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