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Vesting of property and rights.

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(4) A notification in the Gazette under the hand of the Colonial Secretary that such evidence has been furnished to the Governor by such person shall be conclusive evidence of such appointment.

10.—(1) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (2) the corporation shall have power to acquire, accept leases of, purchase, take, hold, and enjoy any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements of what nature of kind soever and wheresoever situated, and also to invest moneys upon mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements, or upon the mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities of any government, municipality, corporation or company, and also to purchase, acquire and possess vessels, goods and chattels of what nature and kind soever.

(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of sub-section (1), the corporation shall not acquire any immovable property in the Colony unless it shall have previously obtained the special con- sent of the Governor in Council in each case.

(3) The corporation shall further have power by deed. under its seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, ex- change, partition, yield up, mortgage, demise, re-assign, trans- fer or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings, messuages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities, vessels, goods or chattels, which are for the time being vested in or belonging to the corporation upon such terms as to the corporation may seem fit.

11. All property, vessels, goods and chattels, and all rights which immediately before this Ordinance belonged to or were vested in the members of the unincorporated Girl Guides Association, Hong Kong Branch, as such, or in any person in trust for or on behalf of such members, are hereby transferred to and vested in the corporation.

12. All deeds and other instruments requiring the seal of the corporation shall be sealed in the presence of, and shall be signed by, the Colony Commissioner for the time being and the Assistant Colony Commissioner for the time being, and all instruments requiring the signature of the corporation shall be signed by such Commissioner and Assistant Commissioner.

13. All matters of internal management shall be settled and carried out in accordance with the constitution, byelaws and rules of The Girl Guides Association, and with any byelaws and rules made by the Hong Kong Branch thereof under the rules of The Girl Guides Association.

14. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed rights of the to affect the rights of His Majesty the KING, His Heirs, or Successors, or the rights of any body politic or corporate or other rights. any other person except such as are mentioned in this Ordin- ance and those claiming by, from or under them, and nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorise any change in the General spirit of the movement of The Girl Guides Associa- tion as incorporated by the Founder Lieut-General Lord Baden-Powell, G.C.V.O., K.C.B., F.R.G.S., D.C.L., L.L.D., and embodied in his book "Girl Guiding" or in the "Rules, Policy and Organisation" of The Girl Guides Association for the time being in force.