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(m) to underlake and execute any trusts or any agency business which may seem directly or indirectly conducive to any of the objects of the corporation:

(M) Lo subscribe to any local or other charities and to grant donations for any public purpose and to pay a gratuity, pension or allowance on retirement to any servant or the dependents of any servant of the corporation and to make contributions to any fund and pay premiums for the purchase or provision of any such gratuity, pension or allowance;

(o) to purchase or otherwise acquire and undertake all or any part of the property, liabilities and engagements of any company, institution, society or association having objects altogether or in part similar to those of the corporation;

(p) to appoint a secretary and sech other officers and servant,

subject to such conditions as the corporation thinks fit:

(g) to do all such other lawful things as are incidental or conducive

to the attainment of the above objects;

() subject to the provisions of paragraph 100 and sub-paragraphs (b), (d) and (e) of this paragraph with regard to approval or con- seat, to enter into any contract with the Government or any other person.

(2) In any transaction for which the consent or approval of the Gavernor is required, the signature of the Governor endorsed on the document by means of which the transaction is effected shall be sufficient evidence that such consent or approval was obtained.

3 (1) The corporation shall have and may use a common seal, the affixing of which shall be authenticated by the signature of the chairman and a director of the corporation.

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

4. (1) Membership of the corporation shall consist of ordinary members and voting members.

(2) The following persons and societies shall be ordinary member of the corporation-

(a) any persons or societies who at the commencement of this Ordin- ance were or were deemed to be members of the corporation during their life time or during the existence of the society, by virtue of section 3 of the repealed Ordinance;

(b) any person or society who subscribes to the funds of the cor- poration such sum as may be specified by the board from time to time and approved by the Secretary for Home Affairs, and whose name is entered with the consent of the board in the register of members to be kept by the corporation.

(3) The following persons or societies shall be voting members of the corporation-

(a) any person who has been chairman of the board of the corpora-

tion;

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(b) members of the board shall er officio be voting members for

so long as they shall continue to be directors:

(e) members of the advisory board shall be voting members for sa

loog as they shall continue to be members thereof;

(d) in addition to the persons hereinbefore mentioned the advisory board shall from time to time select not more than one bundred voting members from amongst the ordinary members of the car. poration, and such voting members shall hold office for a period of three years from the date of their selection:

Provided that any person so selected shall cease to be a voting member if he shall be convicted of an offence punishable with imprisonment for a period exceeding twelve months or shall be adjudged bankrupt or make a composition or arrangement. with his creditors or became of unsound mind.

(4) Voling members shall have the right to receive notice of all general meetings and to attend the same to vate thereat as hereinafter provided.

(5) Any member may at any time resign from the corporation by giving to the corporation not less than one month's notice in writing.

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(1) There shall be a board of the corporation consisting of not less than eleven nor more than twenty directors.

(2) The persons who are directors of the corporation at the com- mencement of this Ordinance shall constitute the board until 1st April 1971.

6. (1) The directors shall be elected by secret ballot at the annual general meeting.

(2) Every candidate for the post of director shall be a person con- sidered by the advisory board to be held in high esteem by Chinese in Hong Kong.

(3) Prior to the annual general meeting, the chairman shall give not less than twenty-one days' prior notice in writing to all voting members inviting them to nominate persons to be directors and to submit the names of the proposed nominees for the consideration of the advisory board.

(4) A nomination of any person to be a director shall be delivered to the secretary not less than fourteen days prior to the annual general meeting

(5) Persons so nominated, if approved by the advisory board, shall he candidates for the post of director if proposed and seconded as such at the annual general meeting.

7. (1) The directors shall subject to sub-paragraph (2) hold office for a period of one year commencing on 1st April or if they are elected after that date until 1st April next following their election,

(2) If the election of directors for the ensuing year has not been completed on or before 31st March the directors in office on that day shall continue to hold office until the election of their immediate successors.

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(1) If any director dies, resigns or becomes incapable of further acting the remaining directors or a majority of them shall have power to elect any persons qualified under the provisions of paragraph 6 to fill the vacancy for the remainder of the term of office of such director.

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