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CAP. 317]
Originally
31 of 1930.
Fraser
31 of 1930.
Short title.
Interpretation,
(1 of 1870).
Continued existence
of the corporation created by Ordinance No. 1 of 1870 and membership thereof.
Tung Wah Hospital.
CHAPTER 317.
TUNG WAH HOSPITAL..
To make certain provisions relating to the corporation named
The Tung Wah Hospital.
[12th December, 1930.]
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Tung Wah Hospital Ordinance.
2. In this Ordinance— "constitution" means the constitution of the corporation created by virtue of the provisions of the Tung Wa Hospital Incorporation Ordinance, 1870, and continued by this Ordinance, as such constitution is approved from time to time by the directors for the time being of the said corporation, subject to the provisions of this Ordinance relating to any matter expressly dealt with in this Ordinance;
"society" includes a company, institution, firm, guild or other association of persons by whatever name called.
3. (1) Notwithstanding the repeal of The Tung Wa Hospital Incorporation Ordinance, 1870, the corporation created by virtue of the provisions of that Ordinance, herein- after called the corporation, shall continue to exist under the name of "The Tung Wah Hospital" and in that name shall continue to have perpetual succession and in that name may sue and be sued in all courts in the Colony and may con- tinue to have and use a common seal.
(2) Whereas difficulties have arisen with regard to the ascertainment of the members of the corporation, it is hereby enacted as follows-
(a) every person who has at any time acted or purported
to act as a director of the corporation shall be deemed to have been a member of the corporation during his term of office;
(b) every such person still surviving at the commence- ment of this Ordinance shall continue during his lifetime to be a member of the corporation;
(c) every person who is hereafter duly elected a director of the corporation shall be deemed to be a member of the corporation during his lifetime;
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Tung Wah Hospital.
(d) every person who or society which subscribes a sum of at least ten dollars to the funds of the corporation, or satisfies the directors for the time being that he or it has at any time subscribed a sum of at least ten dollars to the funds of the corporation, and whose name is entered in a register of members hereafter to be kept by the corporation, shall be a member of the corporation during the lifetime of such person or during the existence of such society as the case may be;
(e) nothing in this subsection shall be deemed to affect the rights of any person who may be able to prove that he is a member of the corporation by virtue of the provisions of section 2 of the Tung Wa Hospital Incorporation Ordinance, 1870.
4.
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(1 of 1870).
of the
The objects of the corporation shall be as follows- Objects (a) the maintenance, chiefly as a free hospital, of the corporation.
hospital which was contemplated by the Tung Wa Hospital Incorporation Ordinance, 1870, and which (1 of 1870). is known as the Tung Wah Hospital;
(b) the maintenance, chiefly as a free hospital, of the hospital which was contemplated by the Tung Wa Hospital Extension Ordinance, 1900, and which is (1 of 1900). known as the Tung Wal Infectious Diseases Hospital;
(c) the maintenance, chiefly as a free hospital, of the general hospital which was contemplated by the Tung Wa Hospital Extension Ordinance, 1911, and (38 of 1911). which is known as the Kwong Wah Hospital;
(d) the maintenance, chiefly as a free hospital, of the hospital on Inland Lot No. 2686 and known as the Tung Wah Eastern Hospital;
(e) the management of the Yee Chong mortuary and
the Wing Pit Ting farewell pavilion;
the management of the Man Mo Temple Fund in accordance with the provisions of the Man Mo Temple Ordinance;
(g) the payment of passages for Chinese destitutes and patients, the burial and reburial of Chinese, the collection and administration of funds for the relief of any special distress among the Chinese com-
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(Cap. 154).
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