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Appointment
of Members
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The Committee shall have such powers and duties and shall hold such meetings as are specified in this Orlinsurde and in the Regulations in the Schedule hereto.
3.-(1) For the purposes of the nomination, mentioned in section 2 (d) and (e) a copy of a minute purporting to of Committee. be a copy of a minute of the Committee of the long Kong General Chamber of Commerce and a copy of a minute purporting to be a copy of a minute of the Com- mitteee of the Missions to Seamen in London respectively that a person ins been nominated a Member of the Com- mittee shall be sufficient for the purposes of this Ordi-
Powers of
nance.
(2) The certificate of the Colonial Secretary that any person was at the date of the certificate or had been at some previous specified dute n. Member of the Cominities shail for all purposes be conclusive evidence of that faet.
4.--(1) The Corporation shall carry on the work and objects heretofore carried on both by the Trustees of the Corporation. Sailors Home and by the Missions to Seamen in Hong Kong, which, as regards the Trustees of the Sailors Home, is the care of officers and men of the Mercantile Marine irrespective of their religion and also the provision of a suitable institute or home for the seafaring classes and officers and men aforesaid, and as regards the Missions to Seamen in Hong Kong is the provision of an institute for and the spiritual welfare of the seafaring classes and in pursuance of such work and objects the use of every means consistent with the principles and received practice of the Church of England, and the Corporation shall continue to carry on such work and objects.
Execution of documents.
Vesting of property.
Ordinances Nos 5 of
1925 and 10
of 1919.
(2) The Corporation shall have power to acquire, accept, and grant leases of, take, hold and enjoy any lands, buil- dings, mes-nages or tenements of whatever kind or nature soever and wheresoever situate, and also to invest moneys upon mortgage of any lands buildings, messages or tene- ments, or upon the mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities of any government municipality cor- poration or company, and also to purchase, acquire aud possess vessels and other goods and chattels of whatsoever kil or nature.
(3) The Corporation shall further have power by deed under its seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, exclange, partition, yield up, mortgage, pledge, demise, reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, build- ings, wessuages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities, or other goods and chattels, which are for the time being vested in or belonging to the Corporation, upon such terms as to the Corporation may seem fit.
5. All deals and other instruments requiring the cor- porate seat of the Corporation shall be scaled in the prescuer of three Members of the Committee and shall be sigued by three Members.
6. (1) All those pieces or parcels of ground registered in the Land Office as Mariue Lot No. 295 and Inland Lot No. 2895, together with all rights, easements and appar- tenances thereto belonging or usually held occupied or enjoyed therewith, are hereby transferred to and vested in the Corporation for the unexpired residues of the terms of years created by the Crown Lenses thereof, subject to the payment of the rents and the performance and obser- vance of the covenants and conditions therein contained and subject to all mortgages and charges in respect thereof,
(2) All property and effects at the time of the coming into operation of this Ordinance belonging to and vested in the Trustees of the Sailors Home and the Missions to Seamen in Hong Kong respectively as respectively incor- porated by the Sailors Home Ordinance, 1925, and by the Missions to Seamen in Hong Kong Incorporation Ordi- nance, 1919, shall at the time of the coming into operation of this Ordinance, he transferred to and be and become vested in the Corporation.
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(3) On the coming into operation of this Ordinance the Corporation shall in addition to the mortgages and charges referred to in section 6 (1) become liable for all debts and liabilities of the Trustees of the Sailors Home and Missions to Seamen in Hong Kong,
7. (1) The Corporation may, subject to the approval Power to
of the Governor-in-Conucil, by a resolution passed by the make majority of the Committee, make from time to time such regulations. regulations as may in their discretion seem desirable for the administration of the Corporation and the management
of the premises and property of whatever description thereof, with the exception that Regulation Eleven and that part of Regulation Thirteen in the Schedule bereto Schedule. which relates to the Chaplain shall not in any way be altered except with the consent of the Missions to Seamen in London.
(2) Subject to the exercise of the above powers the regulations contained in the Schedule here to shall be in Schedule. force from the commencement of this Ordinance and shall
be deemed to have been made under this Ordinance.
8. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed Saving of the to affect the rights of His Majesty the King, Ilis Heirs rights of the
Crown and or Successors, or the rights of any body politic or cor- of certain porate or of any persons except such as are mentioned in other this Ordinance and those claiming by from or under them. persons.
affect the
Chater
9 Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed Nothing to affect the Chater Missions to Seamen Endowment herein to Fund save that the Corporation shall be substituted for the Missions to Seamen in Hong Kong mentioned in Missions to Clause four of the Deed of Trust dated the Fourth day of Seamen May, One thousand nine hundred and twenty-three.
Endowment Fund save
as herein provided.
1. The Missions to Seamen in Hong Kong Incorpora- Repeal of tion Ordinance, 1919, and the Sailors Home Ordinance, Ordinances 1925, are hereby repealed.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 7th day of August, 1930.
MiSaint
Deputy Clerk of Councils.
SCHEDULE.
[8. 7.]
REGULATIONS.
"The
1.-(1) In these Regulations the expression Committee " means the Committee incorporated under this Ordinance as "The Sailors Home and Missions to Seamen ".
(2) The expression "The Institute " means the pre- mises used by the Corporation in connection with its work.
THE COMMITTEE.
2. The supreme coutrol and managenient of the Institute and of the premises and property of whatever description of the Corporation shall be vested in the committee.
3. General Meetings of the Committee shall be held in the months of February, April, July and October in each year on such day at such hour as the Committee shall direct.
Nos. 10 of
1919 and 5
of 1925.
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