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Ord. No. 47/74
Establish- ment of
the Hong Kong Arts Centre.
Objects of the Centre.
Powers of Centre.
HONG KONG ARTS CENTRE
PART II
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE HONG KONG ARTS CENTRE
3. (1) There is hereby established a corporation to be known as the "Hong Kong Arts Centre (+)" which shall in that name be a body corporate with perpetual succession and shall be capable of suing and being sued and, subject to this Ordinance, of doing and suffering all such other acts and things as bodies corporate may lawfully do and suffer.
(2) The Centre shall have a common seal which shall not be affixed except pursuant to a resolution of the Committee and in the presence of two members of the Committee and of the Secretary, or some other person appointed in his place by the Committee, each of whom shall sign his name.
(3) Any document purporting to be a document duly executed under the seal of the Centre authenticated in accordance with subsection (2) shall be received in evidence and shall, until the contrary is proved, be deemed to be a document so executed.
4. The objects of the Centre are, subject to this Ordinance— (a) to promote, encourage and provide for the appreciation of and participation in the visual, musical and perform- ing arts in Hong Kong;
(b) to exhibit, display and perform such arts publicly and
otherwise;
(c) to support and promote the learning and practising of
such arts;
(d) to provide facilities in Hong Kong for learning and
practising such arts;
(e) to co-operate with and assist societies, bodies, associa- tions or clubs which have as their objects any of the objects specified in paragraphs (a) to (d); and
(f) such objects ancillary and incidental to the objects specified in paragraphs (a) to (e) as the Board may consider appropriate.
5. Subject to this Ordinance the Centre may through the Committee do all such things as are necessary for, or incidental or conducive to the better carrying out of the objects of the Centre, and, in particular, but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, may—
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