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No. 17 of 1962.

Short title.

Interpreta- tion.

Establish- ment and vesting of fund.

Objects of the trust fund.

Establish-

ment of committee.

COMMUNITY RELIEF TRUST FUND

first recital and to vest the said balances together with any further sums which may be donated for these objects in the Director of Social Welfare Incorporated as trustee, and to provide for the administration of the said fund by a committee appointed for that purpose:

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Community Relief Trust Fund Ordinance, 1962.

2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires-- "committee” means the committee appointed under section 5.

3. (1) There is hereby established a trust fund to be known as the Community Relief Trust Fund (hereinafter referred to as the fund), which shall, on a day to be appointed by the Governor by notice in the Gazette (hereinafter referred to as the vesting day), be transferred to and vested in the Director of Social Welfare Incorporated as trustee.

(2) The fund shall consist of the balances of the sums of money referred to in the preamble on the vesting day together with such other moneys and assets as may from time to time after the vesting day be donated to or acquired by the trustee on the trusts hereinafter set out.

(3) Any trusts which may have existed with regard to the funds referred to in the preamble, shall be deemed to have been extinguished upon the vesting day.

4. (1) The trustee shall hold and stand possessed of the fund upon trust to apply the same in such manner and to such extent as the committee may advise for the following objects-

(a) to make grants and loans to persons who appear to the com- mittee to be in need thereof as a result of fire, flood, tempest, typhoon or other occurrence which has caused suffering or loss to an extent which, in the opinion of the committee, merits relief;

(b) in the like circumstances to provide material assistance in

whatever form appears to the committee to be just.

5. (1) There shall be established a committee to be known as the Community Relief Trust Fund Committee.

(2) The committee shall consist of-

(a) the Director of Social Welfare as ex-officio member and chair-

man;