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Interpreta-
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Distribution of Badges.
Unauthorised possession of Badges.
Possession of
2. In this Ordinance :-
(a) "The Order" means the Grand Priory in the British Realm of the Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem.
(b) The Association" means the Hong Kong Branch of the St. John Ambulance Association.
(c) "The Brigade" means the Hong Kong District of the St. John Ambulance Brigade Overseas.
3. No person, other than the Association or the Brigade, shall distribute or sell or expose for sale :-
(a) any badge, token or emblem specifically adopted for use of the Association or the Brigade.
(b) any badge, token or emblem containing the words "St. John Ambulance Association" or "St. John Ambulance Brigade" or any similar token or emblem
4. No person shall, except with the authority of the Order, Association or Brigade or with other lawful authority or lawful excuse, have in his possession:
(a) any badge, token or emblem specifically adopted by the Order, Association or Brigade for the use by members thereof, or
(b) any badge, token or emblem containing the words "St. John Ambulance Association" or "St. John Ambulance Brigade".
5. No person shall without lawful authority or excuse Unauthorised have in his possession :- Badges.
Wrongful exercise of authority.
Unauthorised Bodies.
(a) any device which so closely resembles any badge, token or emblem specifically adopted by the Order, Associa tion or Brigade for use by members thereof as to lead to the belief that the device in question is such badge, token or emblem, or
(b) any badge. token or emblem containing any words or characters so closely resembling any words or characters ordinarily used to describe any member of the Order, Association or Brigade as to be calculated to deceive or mislead.
6. No member of the Order, Association or Brigade shall, by virtue of his wearing, carrying or bearing any badge, token or emblem of the Order, Association or Brigade or otherwise. attempt to enforce or exercise authority otherwise than in accordance with the Regulations of the Order and its Departments.
7-(1) No person shall form, or work in connection with or be a member of, any organisation which, without authority from the Order, claims or purports to be the St. John Ambulance Association or the St John Ambulance Brigade Overseas or any organisation, other than the Association or the Brigade, which uses the title the St. John Ambulance Association or the St. John Ambulance Brigade or the equivalent Chinese titles therefor or any title in any language, with or without additional words or characters, which so
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closely resemble the St. John Ambulance Association or the St. John Ambulance Brigade as to be calculated to deceive or mislead, or any organisation 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 connection with, or be a member of any organisation 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.
8. Every person who contravenes any of the provisions Penalty. of this Ordinance shall upon sumhary conviction be liable to
a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.
9. (1) The Director for the time being of the Ambulance Incorpora Department of the Order in Hong Kong and the Treasurer and tion. Secretary for the time being of the Hong Kong Branch of the St. John Ambulance Association as the Executive Officers of the Association are hereby incorporated under the name of The Executive Officers of the Hong Kong Branch of the St. John Ambulance Association" (hereinafter called "the Cor- poration') and in that name shall have perpetual succession and shall and 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 both real and personal belonging to the Association and Brigade in Hong Kong,
(3) Any real or chattel real property now vested in the Association and Brigade in Hong Kong shall forthwith vest in the Corporation by virtue of this Ordinance.
(4) All stocks shares securities and things in action and all vessels goods and chattels now vested in the Association and Brigade in Hong Kong or in any other person or corporation for the purposes of the Association or Brigade in Hong Kong shall forthwith be transferred to the Corporation.
(5) All real or chattel real property which may hereafter be acquired by the Association or Brigade in Hong Kong shall be vested in the Corporation,
(6) The disposition and management of the property of the Association and Brigade in Hong Kong and the exercise of any powers or discretions with respect thereto shall be vested in the Hong Kong General Committee of the St. Johm Ambul- ance Association (hereinafter called "the General Com- mittee').
(7) As between the Corporation and the General Com- mittee 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 Associa- tion and Brigade in Hong Kong but the General Committee shall have free access thereto and be entitled to take copies thereof or extracts therefrom.
(8) The Corporation shall do and perform or concur in doing and performing all acts necessary to enable the General