Cap. 1042 《海員俱樂部法團條例》Sailors Home and Mission to Seafarers Incorporation Ordinance

On and after the specified date, the body corporate of the committee established under the former section 2(1) and known as “The Sailors Home and Missions to Seamen” immediately before that date is to be known as “The Sailors Home and Mission to Seafarers”, and in that name shall have perpetual succession and shall and may sue and be sued in all courts in Hong Kong and shall and may have and use a common seal. (Amended 39 of 1989 s. 4)

The committee shall be composed of the following—

The committee shall have such powers and duties and shall hold such meetings as are specified in this Ordinance and in the regulations made thereunder.

Despite the amendment of the former section 2(1), the body corporate established under that section continues in existence on and after the specified date. Accordingly, the rights, obligations and liabilities of that body corporate are not affected in any way by the change of the corporate name effected by subsection (1). (Added 22 of 2018 s. 6)

For the purposes of the nomination mentioned in section 2(2)(c), a certificate from a director or the company secretary of Jardine Matheson Limited that a person has been nominated a member of the committee is sufficient. (Replaced 22 of 2018 s. 7)

For the purposes of the nomination mentioned in section 2(2)(d) and (e), a certificate from the chairperson or the chief executive officer of The Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce and a certificate from a member of the board of trustees or the secretary general of The Mission to Seafarers respectively that a person has been nominated a member of the committee is sufficient. (Added 22 of 2018 s. 7)

For the purposes of the nomination mentioned in section 2(2)(f), (fa) and (fb), a certificate from the chairperson of Amalgamated Union of Seafarers, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Seamen’s Union or Merchant Navy Officers’ Guild—Hong Kong respectively that a person has been nominated a member of the committee is sufficient. (Added 22 of 2018 s. 7)

For the purposes of the nomination of the honorary treasurer and secretary mentioned in section 2(2)(g), a certificate from the senior partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers Hong Kong that a person has been nominated a member of the committee is sufficient. (Added 22 of 2018 s. 7)

The certificate of the Secretary for Transport and Logistics that any person was at the date of the certificate or had been at some previous specified date a member of the committee shall for all purposes be conclusive evidence of that fact. (Amended 39 of 1989 s. 5; L.N. 362 of 1997; L.N. 125 of 2004; L.N. 130 of 2007; L.N. 144 of 2022)

The corporation shall carry on the work and objects heretofore carried on both by the trustees of the Sailors Home and by The Missions to Seamen in Hong Kong before the establishment of the body corporate under the former section 2(1), which, as regards the trustees of the Sailors Home, are the care of officers and men of the Mercantile Marine irrespective of their religion and also the provision of a suitable institute or home for the seafaring classes and officers and men aforesaid, and as regards The Missions to Seamen in Hong Kong are the provision of an institute for and the spiritual welfare of the seafaring classes and in pursuance of such work and objects the use of every means consistent with the principles and accepted practice of the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui; and the corporation shall continue to carry on such work and objects.

The corporation shall promote the spiritual moral and physical well-being of seafarers and their families at home and overseas and in pursuance of such objects the corporation may use any means consistent with the principles and accepted practice of the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui.

The corporation shall have power to acquire, accept and grant leases of, take, hold and enjoy any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements of what kind or nature soever and wheresoever situate, 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 and other goods and chattels of whatsoever kind or nature.

The corporation shall further have power by deed under its seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, exchange, partition, yield up, mortgage, pledge, demise, reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of whether for valuable consideration or by way of gift or donation or otherwise any lands, buildings, messuages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, funds, moneys, stocks, shares or securities, or other goods and chattels, which are for the time being vested in or belonging to the corporation, and may use and disburse the funds income principal and other moneys belonging to the corporation in pursuance of the objects of the corporation in such manner and upon such terms as the corporation may think fit.