Internal
manage- ment.
'Third Schedule.
Saving of rights of
The Crown
and of certain other rights.
Objecta of corporation.
Charities and domin
(1) All matters for which provision is not herein made and all matters of internal management shall be settled and carried out in accordance with the constitution and with the rules contained in the Third Schedule.
(2) The committee may, with the prior approval of the Governor, by resolution amend the constitution.
(3) The committee may by resolution amend the rules con- tained in the Third Schedule.
(4) Any amendment of the constitution or of the rules con- tained in the Third Schedule shall be effective upon a copy thereof, certified by the secretary or by a member of the committee acting as secretary, being lodged with the Registrar of Companies.
9. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed to affect the rights of Her Majesty the Queen, Her Heirs and Successors or the rights of any body politic or corporate or of any other persons except such as are mentioned in this Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under them.
FIRST SCHEDULE
Constitution.
ARTICLE I.
The objects of the corporation are-
(a. 2)
(a) to perpetuate the commemoration of the martyrdom of Imam Hosein a grandson of the Holy Prophet Mahomed by the holding of meetings and giving of dinners during Mokarvum Sefur and at other customary timeA;
(b) to perpetuale also the memory of the other members of Panjatan in such manner as the committee shall from time to time determina:
(e) to maintain and assist in such manter as the committee may from Lime to time determine whether by grants of money Or otherwise needy or indigent Shiahs in Hong Kong;
(d) to make donations from the surplus funds of the corporation to such an amount as the committee may from time to time determine for suitable charitable or deserving purposes.
ARTICLE 11.
(1) None of the funds of the corporation shall be expended by virtue of Article 1 hereof unless the recipient is a Shiah in Hong Kong.
(2) The committee shall not spend more than 15% of the net income of the corporation received in any one year in making grants for the rallef of needy or indigent persons in accordance with paragraph (e) of Article 1.
(3) The committee shall not be entitled to make any donations for charitable or deserving purposes in accordance with paragraph (d) of Article 1 until the funds of the corporation represented by cash and realizable securities as certified by the auditors exceed in value $50,000.00. Any surplus over and above this figure shall accumulate outil such time as it shall have reached in the opinion of the committee a substantial sum when the whole or any part of such surplus may be donated by the committee subject to the approval of a majority of those present at an annual general meeting or an extraordinary general meeting convened for this purpose for epecific religious, benevolent or utilitarian purposEN or one or more of them in Karbela.
ARTICLE III.
The committee shall have such powers and duties and shall hold such Powers and meetinga sa are specified in the Ordinance, in this constitution, and in dales of the rules in the Third Schedule.
ARTICLE IV.
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(1) The committee shall be composed of five persons one of whom Composition. shall be nominated by each of the following five Shiah forms or business of commitme. houses carrying on business in Hong Kong, namely—
Messrs. ABDOOLALLY EBRAHIM & CO., (HONG KONG) LTD. Meaars, H. T. BARMA LTD.
Messrs. KAYAMALLY LTD. Messrs. M. NEMAZBE.
Masers, TVEB & CO.
and such other persons not axceeding two in number as the committee shall from time to time co-opt
(2) No person shall be eligible as a member of the committee unless he was at the time of his nomination » Shiah.
(3) In the event of any vacancy occurring from time to time by reason of a nomines dying, resigning or becoming incapable or unwilling to act or being absent from Hong Kong for more than six months, the committee may require the firm in question to nominate another nominee and if such nomince is not nominated within one month the committee shall be entitled to invoke paragraphs (4) and (5) of this Article.
(4) In the event of any of the firms or business houses mentioned in paragraph (1) hereof ceasing to carry on business in the Colony the remaining members of the committee shall be entitled by resolution passed by the majority thereof to elect another Skiak firm or business house with power to nominate a member of the committee as provided in paragraph (1).
(5) In the event of there being no other Skiak firm or business house available for election as provided in paragraph (1) the remaining members of the committee shall be entitled to co-opt any individual Shiah to be a member of the committee in place of the nominee of such firm,
ARTICLE V.
of enmmittee,
(1) For the purposes of the nomination mentioned in paragraphs (1) Evidence of and (b) of Article IV a copy of a minute purporting to be signed by the appointment firm making the nomination or in the case of the election of an individual of bers member a copy of a minute signed by the committee that a person has been nominated a member of the committee shall be suficient for the purposes of registration of appointment,