Resignation
(4) The Governor shall appoint a member of the Board as chairman thereof.
(5) When, for any reason, a vacancy occurs in the office of a member of the Board, such vacancy shall be filled by appointment by the Governor.
(6) The Governor may appoint any person to be temporarily a member of the Board during the temporary incapacity from illness or during the temporary absence from the Colony of any member of the Board, save that where the member so incapacitated or absent is a member appointed as representing persons engaged in the tourist industry or trade associations, the person appointed under this subsection shall be appointed as representing persons engaged in the tourist industry or trade associations as the case may be.
10. (1) A member of the Board may, at any time, by notice of members in writing addressed to the Governor, resign his office as such.
and power
of Governor
to declare
office
vacant.
Beard to be a body corporate.
Seal of the
Board and
authenti- cation
thereof, and instrumenta executed
thereunder.
(2) If the Governor is satisfied that a member of the Board- (A) has become bankrupt or made an arrangement with his
creditors;
(b) is incapacitated by physical or mental illness; or
(c) is otherwise unable or unfit to discharge the functions of
a member of the Board,
the Governor may declare his office as a member of the Board to be vacant, and shall notify the fact in such manner as he thinks fit. and thereupon his office shall become vacant.
11. The Board shall be a body corporate and shall have the name of the Hong Kong Tourist Association Board and in that name shall have perpetual succession and may sue and be sued.
of
12. (1) The Board shall have a common seal, and the affixing the seal shalt be authenticated by the signatures of-
(a) the chairman of the Board, or some other member thereof authorized for that purpose by the Board either generally or specially; and
(b) some other person authorized for that purpose by the
Board, either generally or specially.
(2) Any instrument purporting to be an instrument duly executed under the seal of the Board shall be received in evidence and shall, unless the contrary is proved, be deemed to be an instrument so executed.
and instru-
13. Any contract or instrument which, if entered into or Certain executed by a person not being a body corporate, would not be contracts required to be under seal, may be entered into or exccuted on mente not behalf of the Board by any person generally or specially required to
authorized by the Board for that purpose.
be under seal.
14. The Board shall have the management and control of the Board Association.
to have manage- ment of Association.
Board
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15. It shall be a duty of the Board to make, within two years of its establishment or within such further period as the Governor to make in Council may from time to time prescribe, to the Governor, dations to
Governor recommendations as to the extent to which members of the Board
on certain may be elected by the members of the Association and as to the matters. desirability of increasing the classes of person eligible for member- ship of the Association.
powers of
18. The Board may, for the purposes of the Association,- General (a) acquire, take on lease, purchase, hold, hire and enjoy Board.
any lands, premises, messuages, tenements, and other property of any kind, and dispose of the same;
(b) enter into any contract;
(c) engage in, assist and promote such activities as are con- ducive to the better carrying out of the objects of the Association and the convenience and enjoyment of the Colony as a holiday resort:
(d) delegate to the Director or any other officer or servant of the Association such of its powers and duties as it may deem expedient for the efficient conduct and management of the affairs of the Association :
Provided that no delegation made hereunder shall preclude the Board from exercising or performing at any rime any of the powers or duties so delegated;
(e) do all such things as are calculated to facilitate, or as are incidental or conducive to, the discharge of the functions of the Board and the better carrying out of the objects of the Association.