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Immovable property shall not

be acquired without the

consent

of the Governor. in-Council,

Execution of Deeds.

Saving of rights of the Crown

and of certain

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Committee to exercise their powers of disposition and manage- ment or any other powers or discretion vested in them.

(9) When any disposition by the Corporation is expressed to be made by the authority or direction of the General Com- mittee the title of a Purchaser shall not be impeachable on the ground that no such authority or direction had in fact been given or that any authority or direction was improperly carried out and a purchaser shall not either before or on conveyance be concerned to make any enquiry as to the authority of the Corporation to make the disposition.

(10) All sums payable to or out of the income or capital of the property of the Association and Brigade in Hong Kong shall be paid to or by the Corporation: Provided that the Corporation may allow all rents profits and income derived from such property to be paid to or by the direction of the General Committee or into such Bank to the credit of such person as the General Committee shall direct and in such case shall be exonerated from seeing to the application thereof and shall not be answerable for any loss or misapplication thereof.

10. Notwithstanding anything herein contained the Association and Brigade in Hong Kong shall not acquire any immoveable property in the Colony unless the consent of the Governor-in-Council shall have been previously obtained.

11. All deeds and other instruments requiring the seal of the corporation shall be sealed in the presence of and shall be signed by the Director for the time being and the Treasurer and Secretary for the time being and all instruments requiring the signature of the Corporation shall be signed by such Director, Treasurer and Secretary.

12. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed to affect the rights of His Majesty the King, His Heirs or Successors, or the rights of any body politic or corporate or of any other person except such as are mentioned in this other rights. Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under them.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 24th day of January, 1935.

R. A. C. NORth,

Deputy Clerk of Councils.

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Enclosure No.2

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ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,

Hong Kong, 25th January,...1935.

REPORT ON ORDINANCE No......3...........of 1935.

1. I have examined the accompanying Ordinance. intituled

An Ordinance to further and protect the activities in

Hong Kong of the St. John Ambulance Association and

the St. John Ambulance Brigade Overseas and to incor-

porate the Director for the time being of the Anbulance

Department of the Order of St. John in Hong Kong and

the Treasurer and Secretary for the time being of the

Hong Kong Branch of the St. John Ambulance Association

as Custodian Trustees.

2. I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which

is not contrary to the Governor's instructions.

3. The St. John Ambulance Association is a foundation

of an Order at present designated the Grand Priory in

the British Realm of the Venerable Order of the Hospital

of St. John Jerusalem and is incorporated by Royal Charter.

The St. John Ambulance Brigade Overseas is a sub-

sidiary of that Order.

A Branch of the Association was established in

Hongkong in the year 1884. and a District of the Brigade in the year 1916.

4. The work of the Association is to train and certify

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pupils in the principles of first aid and nursing and that

of the Brigade to organise them on efficient lines when

certified.

5. The organisation has acquired property both moveable

and immoveable in this Colony and will acquire more from time

to time.

6. The object of the Ordinance is threefold, first to

prevent unauthorised persons from holding themselves out as

qualified members of the Order, Association or Brigade,

secondly to incorporate the Director, Treasurer and Secretary

and so obtain greater uniformity of control and stability

and to ensure perpetual succession and thirdly to take over

all moveable and immoveable property now belonging to

organisation in this Colony.

7. The Ordinance, which was drafted by the legal advisers

of the Order in England, follows generally the form usual

in incorporation Ordinances of this nature, particularly

that of the Boy Scouts Association Ordinance, No.22 of 1927.

It was introduced and passed as a Private Bill.

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9. In my opinion this is an Ordinance to which His Excellency

the Governor may properly as sent in the name of His Majesty

and on His behalf.

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Attorney General.

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