To provide for the incorporation of the Hong Kong Housing Society.
[18 May 1951]
(Format changes—E.R. 6 of 2022)
This Ordinance may be cited as the Hong Kong Housing Society Incorporation Ordinance.
In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires—
constitution (章程) means the constitution of the Hong Kong Housing Society approved from time to time by its members of the time being.The Hong Kong Housing Society shall be a body corporate, hereinafter called the corporation, and in that name shall have perpetual succession and shall and may sue and be sued in all courts in Hong Kong and may have and use a common seal, and may from time to time break, change, alter and make anew the said seal as to the corporation may deem fit.
(Amended 44 of 2000 s. 3)
The corporation shall have full power—
to acquire, by purchase, lease, exchange or otherwise, hold and enjoy land, buildings, messuages and tenements of what nature or kind soever in Hong Kong; (Amended 44 of 2000 s. 3)
to acquire, by purchase or otherwise, vessels, goods and chattels of what nature or kind soever;
to invest moneys on deposit in any bank in Hong Kong or in any government bonds or on mortgage of any land, buildings, messuages or tenements in Hong Kong, or in or on debenture, debenture-stocks, stocks, funds, shares or securities of any corporation or company carrying on business in Hong Kong; (Amended 44 of 2000 s. 3)
to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, yield up, mortgage, demise, let, reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of, any land, or buildings, messuages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, debenture-stock, funds, securities, vessels, goods and chattels for the time being vested in the Society, upon such terms as the Society may deem fit;
to erect any buildings, messuages or tenements and effect any improvement thereto;
to borrow money upon such terms as the Society shall think fit, and to raise money by public or private subscription;
to enter into any agreement and engage any contractor or other agent; and
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 constitution, or the purposes aforesaid or any of them.
The corporation shall consist of such members as may be provided by its constitution.
The existing constitution of the unincorporated Hong Kong Housing Society shall be the constitution 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 constitution for the time being in force.
A copy of the constitution of the corporation and of any amendment thereto, and a list of the names and addresses of the members of the executive committee of the corporation and of any amendment thereto, certified in each case as correct by the chairman of the executive committee or by the Executive Director of the corporation, shall be forwarded to the Registrar of Companies for registration.
(Amended 79 of 1979 s. 2)
The corporation shall pay such fee for registering any document with any public registry as may be payable under any enactment relating thereto.
Any person may inspect any of the documents registered by the corporation in pursuance of section 7, upon payment of such fee as may be payable under any enactment relating thereto.
All deeds, documents and other instruments requiring the seal of the corporation shall be signed by the chairman of the executive committee and the Executive Director of the corporation or by such other person or persons as the executive committee shall from time to time appoint and such signing shall be taken as sufficient evidence of the due sealing of such deeds, documents and other instruments.
(Amended 79 of 1979 s. 2)
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 44 of 2000 s. 3)