Short title and com- mencement.
F. of M. No. 9 of 1950.
Muslims and the Social and Welfare
Services
Lotteries
Board
Ordinance.
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No. 64 OF 1950.
An Ordinance relating to the Social and Welfare
Services Lotteries Board Ordinance, 1950.
[11th December, 1950.]
IT IS HEREBY ENACTED by the High Commissioner of the Federation of Malaya and Their Highnesses the Rulers of the Malay States with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council as follows:
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Social and Welfare Services Lotteries Board (Clarification) Ordinance, 1950, and shall come into force simulta- neously with the Social and Welfare Services Lotteries Board Ordinance, 1950,
2. It is hereby declared that nothing contained in the Social and Welfare Services Lotteries Board Ordinance, 1950, or any rule, regulation or order made thereunder shall be deemed to require any Muslim to do any act contrary to his religion.
Passed in the Legislative Council on the twenty- second day of November, 1950.
RAJA AYOUB,
Clerk of Council.
1950.
KUALA LUMPUR:
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another person in his place or in place of any member who dies, retires or who, for the time being, is unable to act.
(3) Five members of the Board shall constitute a quorum at any meeting and all acts, matters or things authorised or required to be done by the Board may be decided by a majority at any meeting at which such a quorum is present.
(4) The Chairman shall, when present, preside at every meeting of the Board, and in his absence such member of the Board as may be chosen by the members present shall preside.
(5) The Chairman or member presiding at a meeting shall have the right to vote on any question and, in the event of the division of votes being equal, he shall also have a casting vote.
(6) All acts done by the Board shall, notwith- standing any vacancy in the Board or that it is afterwards discovered that there was a defect in the appointment of a person purporting to be a member thereof, be as valid as if no such vacancy or defect had existed.
(7) Subject to the provisions of this section, the Board shall have power to regulate its own procedure at its meetings and to appoint a Secretary of the Board and to provide for the taking and custody of minutes of the meetings of the Board.
Common
5. (1) The common seal of the Board shall bear such device as the Board may approve and the Board Seal. may from time to time break, change, alter and make anew such seal as it may think fit.
(2) The common seal of the Board shall be kept in the custody of the Chairman and shall not be affixed to any instrument except in the presence of the Chairman and two other members of the Board, who shall sign their names to the instrument in token of their presence and such signing shall be sufficient evidence that such seal was duly and properly affixed and that the same is the lawful seal of the Board.
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6. (1) The Board may appoint such officers and Officers and servants as it may consider to be necessary for the due servants of performance of the duties and functions of the Board.
(2) The officers and servants of the Board shall receive out of the funds raised by the Board such remuneration and allowances
as may be approved by the High Commissioner in Council.
the Board.