Vesting of property and rights.
Execution of documents.
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vest moneys upon mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements, or upon the mortgages, de- bentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities of any government, municipality, corporation or company, and also to purchase, acquire and possess vessels, goods and chattels of what nature and kind soever.
(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of sub-section (1), the corporation shall not acquire any immovable property in the Colony unless it shall have previously obtained the special consent of the Governor in Conneil in each case.
(3) The corporation shall further have power by deed under its seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, sur- render, exchange, partition, yield up, mortgage, demise, re-assign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings, messuages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities, vessels, goods or chattels, which are for the time being vested in or be- longing to the corporation upon such terms as to the corporation may seem fit.
11. All vessels, goods and chattels, and all rights, which immediately before the commencement of this Ordinance belonged to or were vested in the members of the unincorporated Boy Scouts Association, Hong Kong Branch, as such, or in any person in trust for or on behalf of such members, are hereby transferred to and vested in the corporation.
12. All deeds and other instruments requiring the seal of the corporation shall be sealed in the presence of, and shall be signed by, the President for the time being and the Commissioner for the time being, and all instruments requiring the signature of the corporation shall be signed by such President and Commissioner.
13. All matters of internal management shall be management. settled and carried out in accordance with the constitu- tion byelaws and rules of the Boy Scouts Association, and with any byelaws or rules made by the Hong Kong Branch thereof.
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14. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be rights of the deemed to affect the rights of His Majesty the King, certain other His Heirs or Successors, or the rights of any body politic or corporate or of any other person except such as are mentioned in this Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under them.
rights.
Objects and Reasons.
1. The Boy Scouts Association, which was founded in the year 1908 by Sir Robert Baden-Powell, was incorporated by Royal Charter on the 4th January, 1912. His Majesty the King is Patron of the Associ- ation, and Sir Robert Baden-Powell is Chief Scout. As is well known, local associations have been formed all over the British Empire. In the case of branches organized in the dominions and in the Colonies, Chief Scouts or Chief Commissioners are appointed. His Excellency the Governor is the Chief Scout of the Hong Kong Branch, the Honourable Mr. R. H. Kotewall, C.M.G., LL.D., is President, and the Reverend G. T. Waldegrave is Commissioner.