Meetings of
the Board.
Conduct of business of the Board.
4. (1) The Board shall meet at such times and in such places as the Chairman may appoint:
Provided that-
(a) the Board shall meet not less than twice in each calendar year and one of such meetings shall be an annual general meeting at which the annual accounts of the Board shall be presented; and
(b) no meeting of the Board shall be deemed to have been validly convened unless not less than four days' or, in the case of an annual general meeting, fourteen days' notice in writing thereof has been given to each member of the Board then present in the Colony.
(2) At any meeting of the Board seven members shall constitute a quorum.
(3) The validity of any proceedings of the Board shall not be affected by any vacancy among the members thereof or by any defect in the appointment of any member thereof.
(4) All questions coming or arising before a meeting of the Board shall be determined by a majority of the members thereof present and voting thereon.
(5) The Chairman at any meeting of the Board shall bave an original vote and also, if upon any question the votes shall be equally divided, a casting vote.
(6) If the Chairman is unable to take the chair at any meeting of the Board he may nominate any other member thereof to take the chair in his stead, or, in the absence of the Chairman and such other member. if any, the members present and voting at the meeting shall elect from among their number one member to take the chair thereal.
(7) The Board may make standing orders for regulating the pro- cedure at, and in connexion with, its meetings.
5. (1) The Board may conduct its business in such manner as appears to it expedient and may for that purpose appoint from among its members select committees and may authorize any such committee to coopt thereto such additional members, not necessarily being wem- bers of the Board, as may appear to it to be necessary for the proper conduct of the business delegated to it by the Board.
(2) The Board may employ, upon such terms and conditions as it may think fit, such staff as sball appear to it to be necessary for the proper conduct of the business of the Board.
6. The purposes of the Board shall be to provide, maintain and Purposes of administer cemeteries and burial grounds for persons of the Chinese the Board. race permanently resident in the Colony.
7. (1) For the purposes specified in section 6 the Board shall Powers of have full power-
the Board.
(a) subject to the provisions of the Charities (Land Acquisition) (23 of 1998).
Ordinance, 1958, to acquire, accept leases of, purchase, take and otherwise hold and enjoy any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements of what nature or kind socver and wheresoever situate:
(b) to acquire, by purchase or otherwise, goods and chattels of
what nature or kind soever;
(c) to invest moneys on deposit in any bank in the Colony or in any Government bonds or on mortgage of any lands, build- ings, messuages or tenements in the Colony or in or on debentures, debenture stocks, funds, shares or securities of any corporation or company carrying on business in the Colony:
(d) to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, yield up, mortgage. demise, let, reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, or buildings, messuagos, tenements, mortgages, deben- tures, debenture stocks, funds, securities, goods and chattels for the time being vested in the Board, upon such terms as the Board may deem fit:
(e) to erect any buildings, messuages or tenements and effect any
improvement thereto;
(f) to borrow money upon such terms as the Board shall think fit, and to raise money by public or private subscription; and
(g) generally to do such other things as may appear to be inciden- tal or conducive to the proper carrying out of the purposes of the Board as set out in this subsection.
(2) Io addition to and notwithstanding anything contained in sub- section (1), the Board may donate to any charity operating for the benefit of persons of the Chinese race in the Colony any moneys vested in it which are or may become surplus to the requirements of the proper management, and administration and maintenance of any Chinese Per- mancot Cemetery for the time being under the control of the Board.
8. (1) The Board may make rules to govern—
(a) the conduct of the internal affairs of the Board; and
(6) the management and use of any Chinese Permanent Cemetery.
Power of the Board to make rules.