1708
No. 22 of 1927.
BOY SCOUTS ASSOCIATION.
Powers of corporation.
(1) The persons who are for the time being of the Boy Scouts Association, Hong Kong Branch, shall be a body corporate, hereinafter called the corporation, and shall have the name of the "Boy Scouts Association, Hong Kong Branch" and in that name shall have perpetual succession and shall and may sue and be sued in all courts in the Colony and shall and may have and use a common seal.
(2) Whenever any person is appointed to the office of President, Commissioner or Honorary Treasurer of the Boy Scouts Association, Hong Kong Branch, such person shall, within six weeks after his appointment or within such further time as may be allowed by the Governor, furnish to the Governor satisfactory evidence of his appointment.
(3) 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 or 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 has previously obtained the special consent 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, exchange, partition, yield up, mortgage, demise, reassign, transfer 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.
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939, Supp, Sched.
1708
No. 22 of 1927.
BOY SCOUTS ASSOCIATION.
Powers of corporation.
time being of the Boy Scouts Association, Hong Kong Branch, shall be a body corporate, hereinafter called the corporation, and shall have the name of the "Boy Scouts Association, Hong Kong Branch" and in that name shall have perpetual succession and shall and may sue and be sued in all courts in the Colony and shall and may have and use a common seal.
(2) Whenever any person is appointed to the office of President, Commissioner or Honorary Treasurer of the Boy Scouts Association, Hong Kong Branch, such person shall, within six weeks after his appointment or within such further time as may be allowed by the Governor, furnish to the Governor satisfactory evidence of his appointment.
(3) 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, pur- chase, take, hold and enjoy any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements of what nature or kind soever and wheresoever situated, and also to invest moneys upon mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements
tenements or upon the mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities of any govern- ment, 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 has previously obtained the special consent 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, exchange, partition, yield up, mortgage, demise, reassign, transfer 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.
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939, Supp, Sched.
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