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Common seal.

Vesting of land.

Change of trustees.

Notification of change

8. (1) The common seal of a corporation shall bear such device as may be approved by the Registrar, and shall bear the name of the corporation.

(2) The seal shall not be changed except with the consent of the Registrar, who, if satisfied that such change is necessary or desirable, may upon payment of the prescribed fee give his consent thereto.

7. Where any land belongs to or is held in trust for a body of persons and trustees of that body have been incorporated under the provisions of this Ordinance, the person whose name appears in the Land Office registers as the owner thereof, shall, upon demand made by the corporation, cause the land to be assigned to the corporation, and upon assignment the land shall vest in the corporation in trust for such body of persons:

Provided that nothing in this section shall be deemed to absolve the corporation from compliance with the requirements of the Charities (Land Acquisition) Ordinance, 1958, or with any conditions or directions inserted in the certificate of incorporation.

B. Where a certificate has been granted, vacancies in the number of the trustees shall from time to time be filled so far as is required by the constitution, settlement or rules of the body of persons or by such conditions or directions as may be contained in the certificate, by such legal means as would have been avail- able for the appointment of new trustees of such body of persons if no certificate had been granted, or otherwise as may be required by such conditions or directions aforesaid.

9. (1) Notice of any change in the situation of the principal of principal office shall be given not later than twenty-eight days after the

change, to the Registrar.

office or

trustees.

(z) Within twenty-eight days after the appointment of each new member of a corporation, a notification thereof by the cor- poration containing particulars of the full name and aliases (if any), residential address, occupation and nationality of the new

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member, together with such evidence as the Registrar may require of such appointment and the consent in writing of such new member to his appointment, shall be delivered to the Registrar.

(3) Within twenty-eight days after the death, resignation or removal of a member of a corporation, a notification thereof by the corporation shall be delivered to the Registrar together with such evidence as the Registrar may require.

(4) The Registrar, if satisfied with the evidence produced to him under this section, shall, upon payment of the prescribed fee, register the change in the address of the principal office or the appointment of any new member and the death, resignation or removal of any member who has died, resigned or been re- moved, as the case may be.

(5) Where any corporation fails to give notice as required by this section, every member of such corporation shall be guilty of an offence and liable upon summary conviction to a fine of five hundred dollars:

Provided that it shall be a good defence for any member to prove that he did not know and could not readily have learnt of such change or in the case of a newly appointed member that he did not give his consent to such appointment and did not act as a member.

documents.

10. (1) The Registrar shall maintain a register of all cor- Registers porations and shall have custody of all applications for certificates and of incorporation of such corporations, and all documents sub- mitted in connexion therewith.

(2) Such register shall be open to inspection by the general public during office hours on payment of the prescribed fee.

(3) Upon payment of the prescribed fee, any person may inspect any document registered with or kept by the Registrar under the provisions of this Ordinance and may require a copy or extract of any such document to be made and certified under the hand of the Registrar.

of trustech notwith-

11. After a certificate has been granted under the provisions Liability of this Ordinance, all trustees constituting the corporation in respect of which the certificate has been granted, notwithstanding standing their incorporation, shall be chargeable for such property as incorpora-

comes or has come into their hands, and shall be answerable and

tion.