Short title.
Interpre- talion.
Establish- ment and
administered by a committee of which the Secretary for Chinese Affairs was ex-officio chairman, and that the main objects of the Brewin Fund were to provide for the benefit of Chinese widows and orphans resident in the Colony who might become destitute and of Chinese workmen employed in the Colony who might become incapacitated for work by reason of old age or sickness or who might have been permanently disabled by accident :
(4) In view of the provisions of section 4 of the Tung Wah Hospital Ordinance, Chapter 317, the Tung Wah Hospital has expressed its desire to be relieved of the management of the Brewin Fund;
(5) The assets of the Brewin Fund as at the 30th day of November, 1954, are set out in the Schedule hereto :
(6) It is considered that having regard to all the circum- stances, it is expedient by Ordinance to extinguish the existing trust of the Brewin Fund, to create a new trust in respect of the same, and to make due provision for the administration thereof :
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Brewin Trust Fund Ordinance, 1955-
2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires-
"Chinese" means persons of the Chinese race;
"committee" means the committee appointed under section 5;
"widow" includes a concubine and a mother of a child not born
in wedlock.
3. (1)There is hereby established a trust fund to be known as the Brewin Trust Fund (hereinafter referred to as the fund), vesting of fund. which shall, on a day to be appointed by the Governor by notice in the Gazelle (hereinafter referred to as the vesting day), be transferred to and vested in the Secretary for Chinese Affairs Incorporated as trustee.
(2) The fund shall consist of the moneys and assets set out in the Schedule together with any sum accumulated by way of Schedule. interest thereon, rents, dividends and such other moneys as may be paid into the fund but less all such proper disbursements as may be made before the vesting day, and the fund shall include also such other moneys and assets as may from time to time after the vesting day be acquired by the trustee on the trusts hereinafter set out.
(3) Upon the vesting day, the leasehold property mentioned in the Schedule shall vest in the trustee by virtue of this section and without further assurance.
(4) So soon as may be after the vesting day, the auditor appointed under section to shall cause the accounts of the fund to be examined, and shall certify to the Governor the state of the fund as on the vesting day; and a copy of such certificate shall be published in the Gazette.
the trust
4. The trustee shall hold and stand possessed of the fund Objects of upon trust to apply the same in such manner and to such extent and. as the committee may direct for the following objects-
(a) for the maintenance and benefit of Chinese widows and orphans who, being resident in the Colony, appear to the committee to require such maintenance and benefit; and
(b) for the maintenance and benefit of Chinese workmen, which expression shall include females, who having been employed in the Colony and become wholly or in part incapacitated for work by reason of age, sickness, dis- ablement or otherwise, appear to the committee to require such maintenance and benefit.
5.
(1) There shall be established a committee to be known Establish- as the Brewin Trust Fund Committee.
(2) The committee shall consist of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs as ex-officio member and chairman and such members not less than five in all as the Governor may appoint.
(3) A member appointed by the Governor shall hold office for such period as may be specified in the letter of appointment, and may be re-appointed or removed by the Governor at his pleasure.
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committee.