Ordinance
No. 14
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"War Memorial Hospital" means the hospital specified
in the War Memorial Nursing Home Trustees Ordinance, 1923-
of 1923.
Title of Hempital.
3.
Objects of Hospital.
Supreme control of Hospital.
The Huspital shall be called the Matilda and War Memorial Hospital.
4.
The objects of the Hospital shall be-
(a) to acquire and take over and carry on the hospital now known as the Matilda Hospital and to carry on and maintain the objects for which the Matilda Hospital was instituted, namely-
(i) to establish a Hospital to the Glory of God und for the good of man and in memory of Matilda Lincolne Sharp, resident of this Colony (from 1858 to 1803;
(ii) to provide gratuitous medical relief to all British, American and European patients who are poor, helpless or forsaken;
(iii) to establish the Hospital as a religious and
evangelistic institution;
(8) to carry on and maintain the objects for which the War Memorial Nursing Home was instituted, namely to institute as part of the Hong Kong War Memorial Scheme a Home to be carried on in the interests of the community and without any view to profit it being particularly the intention that residents in Hong Kong who saw active service in the Great Wat of 1914-18 should have, where their circumstances in the opinion of the Committee of Management demand ii, & preference and be accorded free Treatment;
(e) to provide medical and surgical treatment and aid or any other assistance and all remedies and requisites in case of accident or illness in the Colony either gratuitously or in return for such payment as way from time to time be determined by the Board of Governors and to provide facilities for training in medicine, surgery, nursing and hospital work and the investigation of discases:
(d) generally to do all things necessary or expedient for the proper and effective carrying out of any of the objects aforesaid.
5. The supreme control government and management of all the property and affairs of the Hospital shall be vested in the Board of Governors.
6.
GOVEIDOTS.
The Board of Governors may exercise all such powers Powers of and do all such acts and things as the Corporation may do but Board of without prejudice to the general powers conferred upon them it is hereby expressly declared that they shall have the following powers, that is to say, power-
(a) to appoint and at their discretion dismiss or suspend such medical superintendents matrons secretaries nursing sisters nurses housekeepers or other officers and servants whether appointed for permanent temporary or special services as they may from time to time think fit and to determine their powers and duties and fix their salary or remuneration ;
(b) to appoint any person or persons (whether incorporated or not) to arcept and hold in trust for the Corporation any property belonging to the Corporation or in which it is interested or for any other purpose and to execute and do all such deeds and things as may be requisite în relation to any such trust and to provide for the remuneration of the trustee or trustees;
(c) to institute conquer defend compound or abandon any legal proceedings by or against the Corporation or its officers or otherwise concerning the affairs of the Corporation and also to compound or allow for payment or satisfaction of any debis due or any claims or payments by or against the Corporation;
(d) to refer any claims or demands by or against the Corporation to arbitration and observe and perform the awards ;
(e) to make and give receipts releases and other discharges for money payable to the Corporation and for the claims and demands of the Corporation;
() to determine who shall be entitled to sign on the Corporation's behalf bills notes receipts acceptances endorsements cheques releases contracts and documentS ;
(g) save as herein provided to make vary and repeal such orders by-laws regulations and rules as the Governors may from time to time think fit in relation to the said Hospital and its conduct and management and as to their own duties and procedure and proceedings and in any affairs relating to the said Hospital ;
(h) to enter into all such negotiations and contracts and rescind and vary all such contracts and execute and do all such acts deeds and things in the name and on behalf of the Corporation as they may consider expedient for or in relation to any of the matters aforesaid or otherwise for the purpose of the Corporation;