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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 27тu MAY, 1893.
Register of members.
Report and
Eatenent of AUTORNIA,
Incorporation when determined.
Property, &c. to become vested in the Crown.
Government zrand.
Erection of buildings, &e,
Inspection.
Curtain Police placed at service of the Society.
Course to be adopted when persons apprehended.
Suspending clause.
13. The Board of Direction shall cause a register to be kept in which every person or firm desiring to become a member of the Society and being duly qualified shall, sub- ject to the provisions of section 7, be entitled to have his name or firm name inscribed, and also shall cause proper books of account to be kept which shall be open at all reasonable times to the inspection of members of the Society and of any person whom the Governor may appoint in that behalf, and also shall within one month after the expiration of every year transmit to the Colonial Secretary a full report of work done during the previous year together with a true statement of the assets and liabilities of the Society and an account of their receipts and disbursements during the previous year, and such statement shall if required be verified on oath or by declaration before a Justice of the Peace by two members of the Board.
Such report, statement and account shall be published in the Gazette.
14. In case it shall at any time be shown to the satis- faction of the Governor that the Society has ceased or neglected or failed to carry out in a proper manner the objects and purposes of its establishment as set forth in section 3 hereof or the objects and purposes of this Ordi- nance or to fulfil the conditions thereof, it shall be lawful for the Governor, by an Ordinance to be passed for that purpose, to repeal this Ordinance and to declare that the Incorporation hereby granted shall cease and determine and become absolutely void.
15. In case the Incorporation hereby granted shall cease nuder the provisions of the last preceding section, all the property and assets of the Corporation shall, for the pur- poses hereinafter mentioned, become vested in the Crown subject to the rateable payment thercout of the just debts and liabilities (if any) of the Society, to the extent of such property and assets, and the balance of such property and assets shall be applied by the Governor towards the objects for which the Society was established or such of them as His Excellency may, in his discretion, deem best.
16. To make due provision for the building or buildings mentioned in section 17 of Ordinance 11 of 1890 it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to authorize the pay- ment to the Society of a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars.
17. The Board of Direction appointed under this Ordi- nance shall, with all convenient despatch after the passing thereof, cause the buildings required for the pur- poses of the said Society to be erected and executed out of the said sum of twenty thousand dollars and of any other funds of the Society from whatever source derived upon such sito as may be approved by His Excellency the Gov- ernor. Such buildings shall be kept and maintained for the objects and purposes specified in section 3 out of the vol- untary subscriptions to the Society and out of such income or money as the Society may derive from any source what-
soever.
18. All buildings and premises of the Society shall be open at all reasonable times to the inspection of the Governor and of any other person whom His Excellency may appoint or authorize in that bebalf.
19. It shall be lawful for the Governor in his discretion to direct that the services of certain subordinate officers and constables of the Police Force shall be placed at the disposal of the Society on such terms and under such con- ditions as His Excellency may sanction.
20. All persons apprehended by the officers or con- stables aforementioned shall be sent or taken to a Police Station and any woman or girl or other person in respoet of whom there is cause to suspect that an offence has been or is being or is about to be committed may be taken at once to such place as may be provided by the Pó Léung Kak Society or to such other place of safety as the Registrar General may direct, there to remain until proper provision can be made for the protection of such person's interests and liberty and so that in the meantime the evidence of such person may be available when required.
21. This Ordinance shall not come into operation unless and nutil the Officer Administering the Government notifies by Proclamation that it is Her Majesty's pleasure not to disallow the same and thereafter it shall come into operation upon such day as the Officer Administering the Govern ment shall notify by the same or any other Proclamation.