CO129-521-9 Sailors Home and Missions to Seamen Incorporation Ordinance 1930 8-8-1930 - 13-8-1930 — Page 5

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Appointment of Members

The Committee shall have such powers and duties and shall hold such meetings as are specified in this Ordinance and in the Regulations in the Schedule bereto.

3.(1) For the purposes of the nomination mentioned in section 2 (d) and (e) a copy of a minute purporting to of Committee. be a copy of a minute of the Committee of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce and a copy of a minute purporting to be a copy of a minute of the Com- mittee of the Missions to Seamen in London respectively that a person has been nominated a Member of the Com- mittee shall be sufficient for the purposes of this Ordi-

Powers of

nance.

(2) The certificate of the Colonial Secretary that auy person was at the date of the certificate or had been at some previous specified date a Member of the Committee shall for all purposes be conclusive evidence of that fact.

4.(1) The Corporation shall carry on the work und objects heretofore carried on both by the Trustees of the Corporation. Sailors Home and by the Missions to Seamen in Hong Kong, which, as regards the Trustees of the Sailors Home, is the care of officers and men of the Mercantile Marine irrespective of their religion and also the provision of a suitable institute or home for the seafaring classes and officers and men aforesaid, and as regards the Missions to Seamen in Hong Kong is the provision of an institute for and the spiritual welfare of the seafaring classes and in pursuance of such work and objects the use of every means consistent with the principles and received practice of the Church of England, and the Corporation shall continue to earry on such work and objects.

Execution of documents.

Vesting of property.

Ordinances Nos. 5 of

1925 and 10

of 1919.

(2) The Corporation shall have power to acquire, accept, and grant leases of, take, bold and enjoy any lands, buil- dings, messuages or tenements of whatever kind or nature soever and wheresoever situate, and also to invest moneys upou mortgage of any lauds buildings, messuages or tetie- ments, or upon the mortgages, debeutares, stocks, funds. shares or securities of any government municipality cor- poration or company, and also to purchase, acquire and possess vessels and other goods and chattels of whatsoever kim or nature.

(3) The Corporation shall further have power by deed under its seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, exchange, partition, yield up, mortgage, pledge, lemise. reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any lauds, build- ings, messuages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities, or other goods and chattels, which are for the time being vested in or belonging to the Corporation, upon such terms as to the Corporation may scem fit.

5. All deeds and other instruments requiring the cor- porate seal of the Corporation shall be sealed in the presence of three Members of the Committee and shall be signed by thrce Members.

8. (1) All those pieces or parcels of ground registered in the Land Office as Marine Lot No. 295 and Inland Lot No. 2899, together with all rights, casements and appur- tenances thereto belonging or usually held occupied or enjoyed therewith, are hereby transferred to and vested in the Corporation for the unexpired residues of the terms of years created by the Crown Leases thereof, subject to the payment of the rents and the performance and obser- vance of the covenants and conditions therein contained and subject to all mortgages and charges in respect thereof.

(2) All property unl effects at the time of the coming into operation of this Ordinance belonging to and vested in the Trustees of the Sailors Home and the Missions to Seamen in Hong Kong respectively as respectively incor- porated by the Sailors Home Ordinance, 1925, and by, the Missions to Seamen in Hong Kong Incorporation Ordi- bance, 1919, shall at the time of the coming into operation of this Ordinance, be transferred to and be and become vested in the Corporation,

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(3) On the coming into operation of this Ordinance the Corporation shall in addition to the mortgages and charges referred to in section 6 (1) become liable for all debts and liabilities of the Trustees of the Sailors Home and Missions to Seamen in Hong Kong.

7. (1) The Corporation may, subject to the approval Power to

of the Governor-in-Council, by a resolution passed by the make majority of the Committee, make from time to time such regulations. regulations as may in their discretion seem desirable for the administration of the Corporation and the management

of the premises and property of whatever description thereof, with the exception that Regulation Eleven and that part of Regulation Thirteen in the Schedule hereto Schedule. which relates to the Chaplain shall not in any way be altered except with the consent of the Missions to Seamen in Loudon.

(2) Subject to the exercise of the above powers the regulations contained in the Schedule herero shall be in Schedule. force from the commencement of this Ordinance and sha!!

be deemed to have been made under this Ordinance.

8. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed Saving of the to affect the rights of His Majesty the King, His Heirs rights of the

Crown and or Successors, of the rights of any body politic or cor- of certain porate or of any persons except such as are mentioned in other this Ordinance and those claiming by from or under them, persons.

9. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed Nothing 10 affect the Chater Missions to Seamen Endowment herein to affect the Fund save that the Corporation shall be substituted for Chater the Missions to Seamen in Hong Kong mentioned in Missions to Clanse four of the Deed of Trust dated the Fourth day of Seamen May, One thousand nine hundred and twenty-three.

Endowment

Fund save as berein provided.

10. The Missions to Seamen in Hong Kong Incorpora- Repeal of tion Ordinance, 1919, and the Sailors Home Ordinance, Ordinances

Nos. 10 of 1925, are bereby repealed.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this

7th day of August, 1930.

N. L. SMITH,

Deputy Clerk of Councils.

SCHEDULE.

[s. 7.]

REGULATIONS.

"The

1-(1) In these Regulations the expression Committee " means the Committee incorporated under this Ordinance as "The Sailors Home and Missions to Seamen ",

(2) The expression "The Institute" means the pre- mises used by the Corporation in connection with its work.

THE COMMITTEE.

2. The supreme control and management of the Institute and of the premises and property of whatever description of the Corporation shall be vested in the committee.

3. General Meetings of the Committee shall be held in the months of February. April, July and October in each year on such day at such hour as the Committee shall direct.

1919 and 5 of 1925.

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