DIOCESAN BOYS' SCHOOL COMMITTEE INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

DIOCESAN BOYS' SCHOOL COMMITTEE INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

LAWS OF HONG KONG

DIOCESAN BOYS' SCHOOL COMMITTEE

INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 1123





CEAPTER 1123.

DIOCESAN BOYS' SCHOOL COMMWITEE
INCORPORATION.

To provide for the incorporation of The Diocesan Boys' School
Committee.

[28th February, 1969.]

1. This Ordinance may be cite d as the Diocesan Boys'
School Committee Incorporation Ordinance.

2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires-
&constitution' means the constitution of The Diocesan Boys'
School Committee approved from time to time by its members
for the time being in accordance with the constitution for the
time being in operation;
44corporation' means the body incorporated by section 3.

3. The Diocesan Boys' School Committee shall be a body
corporate, and shall have the name 'The Diocesan Boys' School
Committee' 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 the Diocesan Boys'
School;

(b) subject to the provisions of the Charities (Land Acquisition) Ordinance,
to acquire, accept leases of, purchase,
takeor otherwise hold and enjoy any land, buildings,
messuages 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 or in any Hong Kong or other government or
municipal bonds or on mortgage of any land, buildings,
messuages or tenements in the Colony, or in or on deben-
tures, debenture-stocks, stocks, funds, shares or securities
of any corporation or company carrying on business in
the Colony or elsewhere;
(e)to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, yield up, mort-
gage, 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; 1

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;

(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 Diocesan Boys' School Committee.

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

7. All the existing members of the unincorporated The Diocesan
Boys' School Committee shall be the first members of the corporation.

8. The existing constitution of the unincorporated The Diocesan
Boys' School Committee 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--- 1

(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 of the commencement of this Ordinance 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 any two of the persons appointed
by the corporation from time to time, whose names are registered with
the Registrar of Companies in accordance with paragraph (d) of
subsection (1) of section 9 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 5 of 1969 Short title Interpretation Incorporation Power of corporation Vesting of property Members Existing members to become members Existing members to become members Existing constitution to become constitution of the corporation Registration with Registrar of Companies Sealing of deeds Saving

Originally 5 of 1969 Short title Interpretation Incorporation Power of corporation Vesting of property Members Existing members to become members Existing members to become members Existing constitution to become constitution of the corporation Registration with Registrar of Companies Sealing of deeds Saving

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