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Seal of the Federation

und authen-

lication

thercot, and instruments excopted thereunder,

Certain con- tracts and

instrumenta

not required

seal.

7. (0) The Federation shall have and may use a common scal, and the affixing of the seal shall be authenticated by the signatures of—

(4) the chairman or the deputy chairman of the Federation, and (b) a member of the general committee authorized for that purpose

by it, either generally or specially.

(2) Any instrument purporting to be an instrument duly executed under the scal of the Federation shall be received in evidence and shall, unless the contrary is proved, be deemed to be an instrument so executed.

8. Any contract or instrument which, if entered into or executed by a person not being a body corporate, would not be required to be

to be under under scal may be entered into or executed on behalf of the Federation by any person generally or specially authorized by the general com- mittee for that purpose.

Management

of business of Federa- tion vesled in meneral

committee.

Qualification

for ordinary

9. Subject to any provisions of this Ordinance which require any matter to be decided by the Federation in general meeting, the busines of the Federation shall be managed entirely by the general committer, which may for that purpose exercise all the powers of the Federation.

PART III.

Provisions us to membership of Federation.

10. (1) Any person carrying on a business in the Colony which and associate consists of the manufacture, alteration, ornamentation, finishing, pro membership.

cessing or transformation of acticles, or parts of articles, for sale and- (a) whose business is registered under section 6 of the Business

Registration Ordinance, 1959;

(6 of 1959).

04 of 1953)

(b) whose industrial undertaking is registered under section 7 of the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance. 1955 aod

(c) who-

(1) normally employs full time not less than one hundred manual workers: or

(i) normally consumes not less than twenty five thousand Kilowatt hours of electricity per month; or

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(ii) has fixed assets not less than two hundred thousand dollars in value.

shall be eligible for admission to the Federation as an ordinary member thereof.

(2) Any person carrying on a business in the Colony which con- sists of the manufacture, alteration, ornamentation, finishing, processing of transformation of articles, or parts of articles, for sale und-

(a) whose business is registered under section 6 of the Business

Registration Ordinance. 1959; and

(6) whose industrial undertaking is registered under section 7 of the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance, 1955; and (c) who is not eligible for ordinary membership by virtue of the

provisions of paragraph (c) of subsection (1),

shall be eligible for admission to the Federation as an associate member thereof.

11, (1) Every application for admission as an ordinary member Application or an associate member of the Federation shall be made to the general

for ordinary committee.

or associate membership and admis-

(2) The general committee shall consider all such applications son of and shall admit to ordinary membership or associate membership, as affiliated and the case may be, such of those persons who are eligible for such honorary membership as it thinks fit.

(3) The general committee may admit as an affiliated member of the Federation any association or organization having interests or objects which are the same as, or similar to. the objects of the Federation or which has interests or objects which are related to the objects of the Federation.

(4) The general committee may admit such persons as it thinks fit to be honorary members of the Federation.

(5) A member which is a firm shall not cease to be a member solely by reason of its incorporation.

members.

12, (1) The fees specified in the Second Schedule shall be payable Fees for to the Federation in the cases specified therein.

membership,

cbc.

(2) The annual fees specified in the Second Schedule shall be Second payable in advance on or before the first day of January in each year Schedule. or in the case of a new member, within fourteen days of his admission to membership or, in the case of the initial allocation of a member to In additional scheduled group, within fourteen days of such allocation: Provided that, if any person is admitted to membership of the Federation, or any member is allocated to any additional scheduled group, after the thirtieth day of June in any year, one half of such annual fee shall be payable by him in respect of that year.