AI-assisted research summary: The rules give the committee control of the corporation, set meeting and notice requirements, require records and audits, and regulate banking, cheque signing, and investments.
Hoseinee Society of Hong Kong Rules(Cap. 1074, section 7) [10 September 1954](Format changes—E.R. 2 of 2023)Control and management 1. The supreme control and management of the corporation and of the premises and property of whatever description of the corporation shall be vested in the committee.Meetings 2. Meetings of the committee shall be held at least twice yearly once before and once after Moharram Safar on such day at such hour as the committee shall direct. 4 members shall constitute a quorum. 3. A general meeting shall be held once in every year at such time (not being more than 15 months after the holding of the last preceding general meeting) and place as may be prescribed by the committee. General meetings held under this rule shall be called annual general meetings. At such meeting a report of all the affairs of the corporation and an account of the receipts, expenditure and property of the corporation together with a balance sheet for the preceding year shall be presented by the secretary and treasurer and there shall be elected 3 members of the committee, a chairman, secretary, treasurer, and auditors for the ensuing year. The chairman must be either a nominated member or an elected member of the committee. At such annual general meeting such other business shall be transacted as the committee shall decide. 4. 7 days’ notice of the annual general meeting shall be given to Shiahs ordinarily resident in Hong Kong who shall be entitled to attend and vote at such meeting. 5. Special meetings of the committee may be convened at any time on the requisition of the honorary secretary and treasurer or of not less than 2 members thereof by a notice specifying the object of the meeting and at any special meeting convened on such requisition no business shall be transacted other than that specified in the requisition. 6. The honorary secretary and treasurer shall keep a minute book of such meetings and proper entries shall be made therein of all business transacted at every meeting. 7. Resolutions passed at all meetings shall be decided by show of hands.Auditors 8. There shall be one or more auditors of the corporation who shall be elected annually at the annual general meeting. 9. The auditor or auditors shall not later than 3 weeks before the annual general meeting in each year audit and report upon all accounts and books of the corporation and shall at any other time if and when required by the committee audit and report upon any of such books and accounts. 10. All the accounts and books of the corporation shall be open to inspection by the auditor or auditors at all reasonable times.Bankers 11. The bankers of the corporation shall be The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited or such other bankers as the committee shall from time to time determine.(L.N. 333 of 1989) 12. All subscriptions and pecuniary donations and the income of investments and all other moneys from time to time forming part of the general funds of the corporation shall on the same being received be paid to the general accounts of the corporation at their bankers. 13. Cheques shall be drawn on the order of the committee and shall be signed jointly by any 2 persons so authorized by the committee.Investments 14. All moneys standing to the credit of the corporation shall be invested by the committee in the corporate name of the corporation upon the investments authorized in the Ordinance and any such investments from time to time may be sold and the proceeds thereof invested in other such investments as aforesaid as and when the committee shall direct.Citation 15. These rules may be cited as the Hoseinee Society of Hong Kong Rules.