Procedure t meetings al advisory board.
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Butucu at apoyunl Veneral mesUBE.
Crema co phidiche at annual general meeting.
Ordinary Aeneral media.
General provisionul
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(5) The chairman shall give the directors and the members of the advisory board at least four clear days' notice in writing of any such joint meeting.
(6) At a joint meeting of the board and the advisory board, seven members of the board shall form a quorum,
(7) The persons who are members of the advisory board at the commencement of this Ordinance shall continue to be members thereof until 1st April 1971.
20. (1) At any meeting of the advisory board four of the members shall form a quorum,
(2) Every question at any meeting of the advisory board shall be decided by a majority of votes of the members present and in the case of an equality of votes the chairman of the meeting shall have a casting vote.
(3) In the absence of the Secretary for Home Affairs the members of the advisory board shall efect a chairman from amongst their number present at the meeting.
21. There shall be an annual general meeting of the voting members, to be held before 31st March in each year at such place as the board may decide, and fourteen days' notice of the meeting and of the time and place appointed for the same shall be given by the secretary to the voting members. Such notice shall be deemed to have been properly given to a voting member if sent by prepaid registered post to the last known address in Hong Kong of such member. Notification of the date and time of such meeting shall also be published in two editions of a Chinese Dewspaper circulating in Hong Kong.
22. (1) At the annual general meeting the board aball submit a report, and the signed and audited statement of the accounts, and a balance sheet made up to 31st March of the preceding year, which shell be considered and passed if thought fit.
(2) In addition to the election of directors in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 6, any matter of which not less than seven days" notice shall have been given to the board relating to the management of the corporation may be brought forward and discussed.
23. At the annual general meeting, the chairman shall take the chair. If he shall not be present the first vice-chairman, the second vice-chairman or the third vice-chairman in order of seniority shall preside. In the absence of the chairman and vice-chairmen, the voting members present may elect one of their number to preside.
24. (1) An ordinary general meeting of the voting members shall he convened at any time for such purposes us the board thinks fl
(2) Notice of a meeting convened under sub-paragraph (1) shall be sent by the secretary by prepaid post to each voting member, at his last known address in Hong Kong, at least fourteen days before the date of the meeting, and every such notice shall specify the place, date and time of such meeting.
25. (1) The accidental omission to give notice of any meeting whatsoever to, or the non-receipt of any notice of meeting by, any person entitled to receive notice thereof shall not invalidate the proceedings at that meeting
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(2) A certificate in writing signed by the secretary and staling that a notics was addressed to a person endled to notice of a meeting at his last known address in Hong Kong and posted by prepaid registered post or prepaid post, as the case may be, shall be conclusive evidenco of the facts contained therein.
26. (1) At any general meeting, twenty valing members shall form a quorum. If a quorum is not present within half an hour from the time appointed for any general meeting, the meeting shall stand adjourned to the same day in the following week at the same time and place. If at such adjourned meeting a quorum is not present the business may be Transacted with such number of vating members as may be present.
(2) The chairman of any general meeting may, with the consent of the majority present at such meeting, adjourn the meeting from time to time and from place to place. No business shall be transacted at any adjourned meeting other than the business left at the meeting unfinished.
(3) At any general meeting a resolution put to the vote of the meeting shall be decided on a show of bands, and every voting member shall have one vote.
(4) Subject to this Ordinance, the board may regulate the procedure at any general meeting subject to the approval of the advisory board, and (subject to such approval) may validate any decisions taken at any such meeting notwithstanding any accidental non-compliance with the provisions of this Ordinance.
27. (1) The vote of a society which is a voting member shall be by proxy.
(2) The instrument appointing any proxy shall be in writing under the hand of the person appointing the proxy or, in the case of a society, under the band of an officer of the society or other authorized person.
(3) The instrument appointing a proxy shall be deposited with the board before the time for holding the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the person named in the instrument proposes to vote and in default the instrument of proxy shall not be treated as valid.
28. (1) The board may make regulations in relation to or providing for the maintenance, management, operation, regulation or control of any of the institulians mentioned in paragraph 1.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 20 of the Toter- pretation and General Clauses Ordinance it shall not be necessary to publish any such regulations in the Gazette,
Short drie.
SECOND SCHEDULE,
Amendments.
B. 12.1
Man Mo Temple Ordinance. The long title is repealed and replaced by
the following-
"To make provision for the Man Ma Temple Fund.”.
The preamble is repealed.
Procedure JUL
Prodex,
Power to make regylodons.
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