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Ord. No. 56/87
HONG KONG COUNCIL ON SMOKING AND HEALTH
HONG KONG
No. 56 OF 1987
HONG KONG COUNCIL ON SMOKING AND HEALTH
Ord. No. 56/87
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"Vice-Chairman" means the Vice-Chairman of the Council appointed under section 5(1) or any other member when acting under section 5(4) as Vice-Chairman.
Short title and
commencement.
Interpretation.
L.S.
I assent.
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David WILSON,
Governor.
16 July 1987
An Ordinance to establish the Hong Kong Council on Smoking and Health, to define its functions and powers, to negative personal liability of members and employees, and to provide for matters incidental thereto or connected therewith.
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Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof.
PART I
PRELIMINARY
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Hong Kong Council on Smoking and Health Ordinance 1987 and shall come into operation on a day to be appointed by the Governor by notice in the Gazette.
2.
In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires—
"Chairman" means the Chairman of the Council appointed under section 5(1) or any other member when acting under section 5(4) as Chairman; "Council" means the Hong Kong Council on Smoking and Health estab-
lished under section 3;
"Executive Director" means the person who holds the office of Executive
Director under section 10;
"financial year" means the period commencing on 1 April each year and ending on 31 March in the year following and includes the period commencing on 1 April 1987 and ending on 31 March 1988; "member" means a member of the Council referred to in section 5(1) and includes any person when acting under section 5(4) as a member;
PART II
INCORPORATION, POWERS AND STAFF
3. (1) There shall be a body corporate called the Hong Kong Council Council on Smoking and Health.
(2) The purposes of the Council are to-
(a) protect and to improve the health of the community by acquiring and disseminating, and assisting others to acquire and to dis- seminate, information concerning the causes, prevention and cure of tobacco dependence in human beings and its adverse effects and related diseases;
(b) engage in research into the causes, prevention and cure of tobacco dependence in human beings and its adverse effects and related diseases and to promote and to assist such research by other individuals and organizations and to publish the results of such research;
(c) advance the education of the public concerning the effects of the smoking of tobacco and other forms of usage of tobacco and its effects on the health of the community and the individual;
(d) take such action as it thinks justified by information in its possession including giving advice to the Government, to any public body, to any public officer, to community health organiza- tions, or to the public on the causes, prevention and cure of tobacco dependence in human beings and its adverse effects and related diseases;
(e) engage in such other activities, and to perform such other functions, as the Governor may, after consultation with the Council, permit or assign to it by order published in the Gazette. (3) The Council shall have perpetual succession and a common seal and be capable of suing and being sued and of doing and suffering all such other acts and things as bodies corporate may lawfully do and suffer.
established and incorporated.
4. (1) The Council may do such things as are expedient for or General powers conducive to the attainment of the purposes declared in or permitted or of Council. assigned under section 3(2) or of any purpose reasonably incidental to or consequential upon any of those purposes.
(2) Without restricting the generality of subsection (1) the Council
may-
(a) take on lease, purchase, or otherwise acquire and hold, manage and enjoy property of any description, and sell, let or otherwise dispose of the same;
(b) enter into, assign or accept the assignment of, and vary or rescind
any contract or obligation;
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