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Management (in this Ordinance referred to as the former Board where the context so requires) subject to the rules and regulations set out in the said Deed;
(c) the said rules and regulations provided, inter alia, that the former Board should be composed of not less than twelve nor more than twenty members of whom the Director of Public Works, the Secretary for Chinese Affairs (then styled Registrar General) and the Director of Urban Services (then styled the Head of the Sanitary Department) were ex-officio members and the remaining members were to be selected from and elected by those who subscribed as mentioned in paragraph (8) and were, subject to certain exceptions, to hold office for life: (d) by the subsequent Deeds of Appropriation the additional pieces of land therein described were appropriated to the former Board upon terms similar to those upon which the Ürst piece of land was appropriated thereto and the cost of laying out such subsequent pieces of land as cemeteries was met out of the funds, then held by the former Board, derived from the management of the first cemetery;
(e) all of the said pieces of land are now used exclusively as cemeteries and burial grounds for persons of the Chinese race permanently resident in the Colony;
( it is considered desirable that the said former Board be dis- solved and replaced by a body corporate having perpetual succession and full powers to provide, administer and manage cemeteries and burial grounds for such persons of the Chinese
race:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ENACTBD 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 Chinese Permanent Cemeteries Ordinance, 1964.
2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires-
"Board" means the Board of Management of the Chinese Permanical
Cemeteries established by virtue of the provisions of section 3;
"Chairman" means the Secretary for Chinese Affairs;
"Chinese Permanent Cemetery" means any cemetery or burial ground for the time being under the management and control of the Board; "Deeds of Appropriation" means the Deeds of Appropriation referred
to in paragraph (a) of the preamble to this Ordinance;
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"former Board" means the Board of Management referred to in para-
graph (6) of the preamble;
"permanently resident in the Colony", in relation to any person, means continuously resident in the Colony for such period of time and subject to such conditions as the Board may prescribe by rules made under section 8.
3. (1) There shall be established in the Colony a Board which Establishment shall be called the Board of Management of the Chinese Permanent and constitu. Cemeteries.
(2) The Board shall consist of
(a) the following ex-officio members—
(1) the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, who shall be the Chairman of the Board;
(ii) the Director of Public Works;
(ii) the Director of Urban Services; and
(6) not less than nine nor more than seventeen other members who shall be appointed by the Governor and shall hold office for three years and shall thereafter be eligible for reappoint- ment to the Board for further such periods from time to time as the Governor shall think fit.
(3) Any ex-officio member, other than the Secretary for Chiness Affairs, may appoint in writing a senior member of the staff of his Department to act on his behalf at all or any meetings of the Board:
Provided that no such appointment shall be valid for more than twelve months from the date thereof.
(4) Any member of the Board, other than an ex-officio member, may, on giving not less than one month's notice in writing to the Governor, resign from the Board.
(5) The Governor may terminate the appointment to the Board of any member, other than an ex-officio member, during the term of office of such member-
(a) on being requested in writing so to do by a majority of three quarters of the members present at any meeting resolving such
course;
(b) in the case of incapacity of such member;
(c) in the case of absence from the Colony for more than twelve
months of such member,
(6) There shall be a Treasurer and a Secretary to the Board who shall be from time to time appointed by the Board.
tion of the Board.