To provide for the incorporation of the executive committee of the Hong Kong Juvenile Care Centre.
[18 December 1953]
(Format changes—E.R. 4 of 2022)
This Ordinance may be cited as the Hong Kong Juvenile Care Centre Incorporation Ordinance.
In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires—
Centre (培育會) means the Hong Kong Juvenile Care Centre; constitution (章程) means the constitution of the Centre approved from time to time by the executive committee for the time being of the Centre, subject to the provisions of the Ordinance relating to any matter expressly dealt with in the Ordinance; executive committee (執行委員會) means the executive committee of the Centre for the time being appointed in accordance with the constitution.The executive committee of the Centre and their successors in office shall be a body corporate, hereinafter called the corporation, and shall have the name of “The Hong Kong Juvenile Care Centre”, 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 use a common seal. (Amended 41 of 1999 s. 3)
The members of the executive committee shall be appointed in accordance with the constitution and shall for the periods of their respective appointments be members of the corporation upon notice of their appointment, and where such appointment is made to replace a retiring member of the executive committee, upon, in addition, notice of such retirement, being filed with the Registrar of Companies. Any such notice shall be signed by three of the continuing or retiring members and shall be sealed with the common seal of the corporation.
The executive committee shall be lawfully constituted notwithstanding any vacancies occurring therein by death, absence, resignation or incapacity of any member or any other cause.
The corporation shall have 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 upon mortgage of any lands, buildings, 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 goods and chattels of what nature or kind soever. (Amended 41 of 1999 s. 3)
The corporation shall further have power to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, exchange, partition, yield up, mortgage, demise, reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks, securities, goods and chattels vested in the corporation on such terms as the corporation may seem fit.
All deeds documents and other instruments requiring the seal of the corporation shall be sealed with its common seal in the presence of three members of the executive committee and shall also be signed by them and such signing shall be taken as sufficient prima facie evidence of the due sealing of such deeds documents and other instruments.
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 41 of 1999 s. 3)