1964 Ed.]
Order of St. John,
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in any language, with or without additional words or characters, which so closely resemble the St. John Ambulance Association or the St. John Ambulance Brigade as to be calculated to deceive or mislead, or any organization which, by the use of any such titles or otherwise, without due authority, purports or claims to be connected with the Order, the Association or the Brigade.
(2) No person shall, without the consent of the Governor in Council, form or work in connexion with, or be a member of any organization other than the Association or the Brigade, which carries on or is intended to carry on any work of a similar nature to that carried on by the Association or the Brigade.
(3) No person other than a member of the Brigade shall wear or use any uniform or equipment of the Brigade.
(4) All uniform and equipment issued to members of the Brigade are deemed to be the property of the corporation hereinafter defined and every member of the Brigade on resigning or being dismissed from the Brigade or otherwise ceasing to be a member thereof shall forthwith deliver up the uniform and equipment issued to him to the officer in charge of his division for return to the Equipment Officer of the Brigade.
8. Any person who contravenes sections 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine of two hundred and fifty dollars.
9. (1) The Chairman for the time being of the Council, the Vice-Chairman and the Secretary of the Council as the executive officers of the Council are hereby incorporated under the name of "The Executive Officers of the Council of the Order of St. John in Hong Kong", hereinafter called the corporation, and in that name may sue and be sued in all courts in the Colony and shall and may have and use a common seal.
(2) The purposes of the corporation shall be to hold all property in the Colony both real and personal belonging to the Order.
(3) All real or chattel real property which may hereafter be acquired by the Order shall be vested in the corporation.
(4) The corporation shall manage and dispose of the property vested in it in accordance with the directions of the Council.
(5) As between the corporation and the Council and subject and without prejudice to the rights of other persons the corporation shall have the custody of all securities and documents of title relating to the property of the Order, but the Council shall have free access thereto and be entitled in respect of documents to take copies thereof or extracts therefrom.
Offences and penalty.
Incorporation.