Short title.
Interpretation,
(Chp. 1058.)
Incorporation.
Powers of
the Society. (Cap. 305)
NOW, THEREFORE, BE TT 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 Hong Kong Society for the Protection of Children Incorporation Ordinance 1969.
2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires- “Chairman" means the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Hong Kong Society for the Protection of Children; “constitution" means the constitution of the Hong Kong Society
for the Protection of Children for the time being in force; "Executive Committee" means the Executive Committee of the Hong Kong Society for the Protection of Children established under the constilution;
"former body corporate" means The Corporation of the Hong Kong Society for the Protection of Children incorporated by the Society for the Protection of Children Incorporation Ordinance;
"President" means the President of the Hong Kong Society for
the Protection of Children;
"Secretary" means the Honorary Secretary of the Executive
Committee:
"Society" means the Hong Kong Society for the Protection of
Children.
3. The Hong Kong Society for the Protection of Children shall be a body corporate and in that name shall have perpetual succession and may sue and be sued in all courts in the Colony and shall have, and may use, a common seal, and may from time to time break, change, alter and make anew the said seal as the Society may deem fit.
4. The Society shall have power-
(a) subject to the Charities (Land Acquisition) Ordinance. to acquire, accept leases of, purchase, take, hold and en- joy any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements of what nature or kind soever and wheresoever situate in the Colony and also to invest moneys on deposit in any banks or upon mortgage of any lands, buildings, mes- suages or tenements in the Colony or upon debentures, stock, funds, shares or securities of any corporation or company carrying on business or having an office in the Colony and also to purchase and acquire goods and chat- tels of what nature or kind soever;
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(b) to build, rebuild, demolish, alter, vary, renew, maintain and repair any buildings, messuages or tenements acquired by the Society or in which it is interested and to effect any improvements thereto;
(c) to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, exchange, parti- tion, yield up, mortgage, pledge, demise, let, reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings, messuages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, debenture stocks, stocks, funds, shares, securities, vessels, goods, chattels, property and assets for the time being vested in or belonging to the Society upon such terms as the Society may think fit;
(a) to borrow money upon such terms as the Society may think fit, and subject to subsection (17) of section 4 of the Summary Offences Ordinance, to raise money by private or public subscription;
(e) to accept donations, grants or subsidies from any person or Government Authority or other body or organization: () to establish, support and subscribe to provident funds. pension and retirement and similar schemes for the bene- fit of employees of the Society and their dependants and to grant and pay pensions or gratuities to and otherwise aid, support or assist any such persons:
(g) generally to do such other acts and things as are in- cidental or conducive to the aims and objects of the Society.
5. (1) On the commencement of this Ordinance all those pieces or parcels of ground specified in the second column of the Schedule, together with all rights, casements and appurtenances thereto belonging, sball vest in the Society for the unexpired residue of the respective terms of years created by the Crown leases or Conditions of Grant specified opposite thereto in the third column of the Schedule, subject to the payment of rent and performance of the covenants and conditions reserved by and con- tained in the said Crown Icases and Conditions of Grant.
(2) All debentures, stocks, funds, shares, securities, vessels, goods, chattels and other movable assets vested in or belonging to or held for or on behalf of or in trust for the former body corporate and all moneys subscribed for the purposes of the former body corporate and all investments of such moneys and all in- terest, income and profits arising from such investments and all securities therefor shall at the commencement of this Ordinance. be transferred to, vest in, belong to or be held for or on behalf of or in trust for the Society.
(Ckp. 228.)
Vesting of property, etc. in the Society. Schedule.