AI-assisted research summary: This Ordinance incorporates the Director in Hong Kong of St. Joseph’s College as a body corporate and gives the corporation property and legal powers.
To provide for the incorporation of the Brothers of the Christian Schools known in French as “L’Institut des Frères des Ecoles Chrétiennes” and known in Hong Kong as St. Joseph’s College. [4 November 1921](Format changes—E.R. 2 of 2022) 1. Short title This Ordinance may be cited as the St. Joseph’s College Incorporation Ordinance. 2. Incorporation The director in Hong Kong of St. Joseph’s College and his successors for the time being in the office of the director in Hong Kong of St. Joseph’s College shall be a body corporate, hereinafter called the corporation, and shall have the name of “The Director in Hong Kong of St. Joseph’s College”, and by that name shall and may sue and be sued in all courts in Hong Kong, and shall and may have and use a common seal and the said seal may from time to time break, change, alter and make anew as the said corporation may see fit.(Amended 55 of 2000 s. 3) 3. Powers of corporation The corporation shall have full power—(a) to acquire, accept leases of, purchase, take, hold and enjoy any immovable property situate in Hong Kong;(b) to sell, assign, surrender, yield up, transfer, mortgage, charge, demise, reassign or otherwise dispose of and deal with any immovable property vested in the corporation upon such terms as to the corporation may seem fit;(c) to invest moneys on mortgage of any immovable property in Hong Kong or in or upon such other securities as to the corporation may seem fit.(Amended 55 of 2000 s. 3) 4. Execution of documents All deeds and other instruments requiring the seal of the corporation shall be sealed in the presence of the person who is for the time being the director in Hong Kong of St. Joseph’s College or of his attorney duly authorized, and such deeds and instruments and all other documents, instruments and writings requiring the signature of the corporation shall be signed by such director in Hong Kong or his attorney. 5. Consent to sales of lands No assignment by way of sale of any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements in Hong Kong that are vested in the corporation shall be valid without the authority of the Supérieur Général of the Society of the Brothers of the Christian Schools known in French as “L’Institut des Frères des Ecoles Chrétiennes”, such authority to be signified in writing signed by the said Supérieur Général.(Amended 8 of 1993 s. 2; 55 of 2000 s. 3; 31 of 2025 s. 231) 6. Appointment of director (1) Whenever any person is appointed to the office of director in Hong Kong of St. Joseph’s College such person shall within three weeks after his appointment or within such further time as may be allowed by the Chief Executive furnish to the Chief Executive satisfactory evidence of his appointment.(2) A notification in the Gazette under the hand of the Chief Secretary for Administration that such evidence has been furnished to the Chief Executive by such person shall be conclusive evidence of such appointment. (Amended L.N. 226 of 1976; L.N. 242 of 1994; L.N. 362 of 1997)(Amended 33 of 1939; G.N. 840 of 1940 Supp. Schedule; 55 of 2000 s. 3) 7. 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.(Amended 55 of 2000 s. 3)