Cap. 1017 - Diocesan School and Orphanage Incorporation Ordinance

To provide for the incorporation of the chairman of the Committee of the Diocesan School and Orphanage. [28 May 1892](Format changes—E.R. 2 of 2022) 1. Short title This Ordinance may be cited as the Diocesan School and Orphanage Incorporation Ordinance.(Amended 5 of 1924 s. 6) 2. Incorporation of Chairman of Committee of Diocesan School and Orphanage The Chairman of the Committee of the Diocesan School and Orphanage shall be a body corporate, and shall have the name of “The Chairman of the Committee of the Diocesan School and Orphanage”, and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and shall and may sue and be sued in all courts, and shall and may have and use a common seal, and the said seal may break, change, alter, and make anew as to the said corporation may seem fit, and the said corporation shall have full 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 situate in Hong Kong, and also to invest moneys on mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages, or tenements in Hong Kong, or on the mortgages or debentures, stocks, funds, shares, or securities of any corporation or company carrying on business or having an office in Hong Kong, and also to purchase and acquire all manner of goods and chattels whatsoever, and the said corporation is hereby further empowered, by deed under its seal, to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender and yield up, mortgage, demise, reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings, messuages, and tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, and securities, goods and chattels, vested in the said corporation on such terms as to the said corporation may seem fit.(Amended 50 of 1911 s. 4; 1 of 1912 Schedule; 55 of 2000 s. 3) 3. Use of seal of corporation All deeds, documents, and other instruments requiring the seal of the said corporation shall be sealed therewith in the presence of the Chairman of the Committee or his attorney duly authorized, and shall also be signed by him or his attorney duly authorized, and such signing shall be and be taken as sufficient evidence of the due sealing of such deeds, documents, and other instruments.(Amended 50 of 1911; 51 of 1911; 1 of 1912 Schedule; 2 of 1912 Schedule) 4. Saving 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.(Replaced 37 of 1950 Schedule. Amended 55 of 2000 s. 3)