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3. Sub-section (1) of section 5 of the Po Leung Kuk Substitution Incorporation Ordinance, 1893, is repealed and the following Ordinance sub-section is substituted therefor :-
No. 6 of 1893, s. 5 (1).
Board of
5.-(1) The Board shall consist of such number of Permanent members as the Governor shall direct and shall include the Direction, Secretary for Chinese Affairs, who shall be ex officio the president, and also the members of the Executive Council and of the Legislative Council representing the Chinese, who shall be ex officio the vice-presidents.
Objects and Reasons.
1. Under section 5 (1) of the principal Ordinance the permanent Board of Direction of the Po Leung Kuk was made to consist of not less than five and not more than ten persons, including the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, as ex officio president, and also the members of the Legislative Council representing the Chinese, as ex officio vice-presidents.
2. Until recently the representative of the Chinese on the Executive Council was also a member of the Legislative Council. The primary object of this amending Ordinance is to enable him to retain his ex officio position as a vice- president.
3. As, however, there will now be a president and four vice-presidents it is thought that a maximum of five ordinary members may be insufficient. The amending Ordinance accordingly removes the limit to their number imposed by the principal Ordinance.
4. The opportunity has been taken to add 5 sub-sections to section 2 of the principal Ordinance giving the Society powers to make and deal with investments similar to the powers given to the Tung Wah Hospital by sections 5 and 6 of Ordinance No. 31 of 1930.
February, 1932.
C. G. ALABASTER,
Attorney General.