1987 Ed.]
Chinese Permanent Cemeteries
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succession and may sue and be sued in all courts and shall have and may use a common seal bearing such name.
(2) Any deed, document or other instrument requiring the seal of the Board shall be sealed with the common seal and signed by the Chairman and by the Secretary or the Treasurer of the Board or by such other person as the Board may by resolution appoint for that purpose and such signing shall for all purposes be taken as sufficient evidence of the due sealing of such deed, document or other instrument.
10. (1) The Board shall cause proper accounts to be kept of all transactions of the Board and shall cause to be prepared for every period of 12 months ending on 31 December, in each year, a statement of the accounts of the Board, which statement shall include an income and expenditure account and a balance sheet.
(2) The accounts of the Board and the statement of the accounts shall be audited by a professional accountant holding a practising certificate as provided in the Professional Accountants Ordinance, not being a member or ex-member of the Board, who shall certify the statement subject to such report, if any, as he may think fit. (Amended, 76 of 1973, s. 3)
(3) The audited statement of accounts together with the auditor's report, if any, shall thereafter be laid before the Board at the next succeeding annual meeting thereof.
11. On the commencement of this Ordinance-
(a) all those pieces or parcels of land appropriated by the several Deeds of Appropriation to the use of the former Board are deemed to have been appropriated to the use of the Board upon the same terms and conditions upon which they were appropriated to the use of the former Board until the said land be vested in the Board by appropriate leases of the same;
(b) the existing rules governing the maintenance and management of Chinese Permanent Cemeteries made by the former Board shall be deemed to have been made by the Board and shall remain in operation unless and until the same be revoked or replaced by new rules made by the Board pursuant to the provisions of section 8.
12. 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 any other persons except such as are mentioned in this Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under them.
Accounts.
(Cap. 50.)
Transitional provisions.
Saving.