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Second Schedule.
(Cap. 154).
(I of 1870),
Election of directors.
Tung Wah Hospital.
taining or therewith usually held, occupied or enjoyed, are hereby transferred to and vested in the corporation, for the unexpired residues of the terms granted, and subject to the payment of the rents, or the due proportion of the rents as the case may be, and the performance of the covenants and conditions reserved by and contained in the respective Crown leases of the said pieces or parcels of ground, so far as the same relate to the said pieces or parcels of ground, and subject also to the said respective rights or equities of redemption, and subject also to any trusts affecting any of the said pieces or parcels of ground.
(4) The pieces or parcels of ground specified by their respective Land Office register references in the Second Schedule, and all things and rights referred to in subsection (2) which immediately before the 12th day of December, 1930, were vested in the Tung Wah Hospital for the pur- poses of the Man Mo Temple Ordinance, shall be held and dealt with by the corporation in accordance with the provisions of the said Ordinance and in accordance with the powers, rights and obligations conferred or imposed by the said Ordinance upon the Tung Wah Hospital or upon the directors of the Tung Wah Hospital,
(5) In this section the "Tung Wah Hospital" means the body corporate created by virture of the provisions of the Tung Wa Hospital Incorporation Ordinance, 1870.
(1) The number of directors shall be not less than ten and not more than twenty.
(2) At least three of the directors shall be residents of Kowloon or New Kowloon.
(3) The directors shall be elected annually, and the annual election of the directors for any one year shall if possible be completed in or before the month of December in the previous year.
(4) The directors elected for any one year shall simul- taneously cease to be directors at the end of the 31st day of December in that year, except as regards any director who has by reason of death or resignation ceased to be a
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director before that time: Provided that if the election of the directors for the following year has not been completed on or before the said 31st day of December the directors elected for that year shall continue to be directors until the election of their immediate successors has been completed: Provided also that, if for any reason it is impracticable to secure the continuance of such directors or any of them in office, it shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint a sufficient number of temporary directors to act until the election of their successors has been completed.
(5) Any director elected for any one year shall be eligible for re-election for the following or any subsequent year.
(6) If any vacancy occurs among the directors by reason of death or resignation it shall be lawful for the remaining directors or a majority of them to elect any person whomsoever to fill the vacancy for the remainder of the year for which the director dying or resigning was elected.
(7) The directors elected for any one year shall during the next succeeding year be known as Hip Li (t), and shall be entitled to attend all meetings of the directors during such succeeding year and to take part in the discussions, but not to vote, at such meetings.
(8) The election of directors shall be held in accordance with the constitution and in particular the rights and responsibilities of the various societies in regard to an election in accordance with the constitution shall remain unaffected.
9. (1) As soon as possible after the election of the directors designate for any particular year they shall elect one of their number to be chairman for that year.
(2) Immediately after the election of the chairman the directors designate shall proceed to elect one of their number to be the second principal director.
(3) Immediately after the election of the second prin- cipal director the directors designate shall proceed to elect one of their number to be the third principal director.
(4) The chairman of the Tung Wah Hospital for the previous year, or the person entitled to preside in his
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