| To provide for the incorporation of the Hong Kong Conference of Youth Organizations. [25 April 1963] (Originally 14 of 1963) Cap 1108 s 1 Short title This Ordinance may be cited as the Hong Kong Conference of Youth Organizations Incorporation Ordinance. Cap 1108 s 2 Interpretation In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires- "chairman" (主席) means the chairman of the corporation appointed in accordance with the regulations of the Hong Kong Conference of Youth Organizations; "corporation" (法团) means the Hong Kong Conference of Youth Organizations incorporated under section 3; "regulations" (规例) means the regulations of the Hong Kong Conference of Youth Organizations approved from time to time by its members for the time being in accordance with the regulations for the time being in operation. Cap 1108 s 3 Incorporation Remarks: Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 4 of 2000 s. 3 The members of the Hong Kong Conference of Youth Organizations shall be a body corporate and shall have the name "Hong Kong Conference of Youth Organizations", and in that name shall have perpetual succession and may sue and be sued in all courts in Hong Kong and shall have and may use a common seal and may from time to time, break, change, alter and make anew the said seal as the corporation may deem fit. (Amended 4 of 2000 s. 3) Cap 1108 s 4 Power of corporation Remarks: Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 4 of 2000 s. 3 The corporation shall have full power- (a) to acquire, accept leases of, purchase, take or otherwise hold and enjoy any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements of what nature or kind soever and wheresoever situate; (Amended 74 of 1974 s. 3) (b) to acquire, by purchase or otherwise, goods and chattels of what nature or kind soever; (c) to invest moneys on deposit in any bank in Hong Kong or in any Government bonds or on mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements in Hong Kong or in or on debentures, debenture-stocks, funds, shares or securities of any corporation or company carrying on business in Hong Kong; (Amended 4 of 2000 s. 3) (d) to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, yield up, mortgage, demise, let, reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of, any lands, or buildings, messuages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, debenture-stocks, funds, securities, vessels, goods and chattels for the time being vested in the corporation, upon such terms as the corporation may deem fit; (e) to erect any buildings, messuages or tenements and effect any improvement thereto; (f) to borrow money upon such terms as the corporation shall think fit, and to raise money by public or private subscription; and (g) generally, to do such other things as may appear to be incidental or conducive to the aims and objects of the corporation as provided by its regulations or the purposes aforesaid or any of them. Cap 1108 s 5 Members The corporation shall consist of such members as shall be provided by its regulations. Cap 1108 s 6 Registration with the Registrar of Companies (1) The corporation shall forward to the Registrar of Companies for registration the following- (a) notice of the address of the principal office of the corporation and any change thereto; (b) a copy of the regulations and any amendment thereto, certified as correct by the chairman; (c) a list of the names and addresses of the members of the corporation and any change therein, certified as correct by the chairman; and (d) the name and address of any person appointed under section 7 to sign deeds, documents and other instruments.(2) Notification in accordance with subsection (1) shall be made within twenty-eight days of any amendment or change, as the case may be. (3) Any person may inspect any of the documents registered under this section. (4) A fee of five dollars shall be payable for registering any document under this section. (5) A fee of one dollar shall be payable for inspecting the documents filed with the Registrar of Companies under this Ordinance. Cap 1108 s 7 Sealing of deeds, documents and other instruments All deeds, documents and other instruments requiring the seal of and sealed by the corporation shall be signed by the chairman and secretary of the corporation or by the chairman or secretary and such other member as the corporation may appoint or by two other members as the corporation may appoint, and such signing shall be taken as sufficient evidence of the due sealing of such deeds, documents and other instruments. Cap 1108 s 8 Existing regulations to be regulations of corporation The regulations of the unincorporated Hong Kong Conference of Youth Organizations in operation at the commencement of this Ordinance shall be the regulations of the corporation, but the same may be changed or amended by the corporation at any time and from time to time in accordance with the provisions of the regulations for the time being in operation. Cap 1108 s 9 Saving Remarks: Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 4 of 2000 s. 3 Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed to affect the rights of the Central Authorities or the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region under the Basic Law and other laws, or the rights of any body politic or corporate or of any other persons except such as are mentioned in this Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under them. (Amended 4 of 2000 s. 3) |
