To provide for the incorporation of the members of the Hong Kong Society for the Blind.
[27 January 1956]
(Format changes—E.R. 6 of 2022)
This Ordinance may be cited as the Hong Kong Society for the Blind Incorporation Ordinance.
In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires—
constitution (章程) means the constitution of The Hong Kong Society for the Blind approved from time to time by its members for the time being; council (委員會) means the council of The Hong Kong Society for the Blind.The members of the Hong Kong Society for the Blind shall be a body corporate, hereinafter called the corporation, and shall have the name “The Hong Kong Society for the Blind”, 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, and may from time to time, break, change, alter and make anew the said seal as the corporation may deem fit.
(Amended 41 of 1999 s. 3)
The corporation shall have full power—
to establish, operate, manage or maintain such homes, clinics and other institutions for the blind or for the curing and prevention of blindness as it may think fit;
to acquire, accept leases of, purchase, take or otherwise hold and enjoy any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements of what nature or kind soever and wheresoever situate;
to acquire, by purchase or otherwise, 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 debentures, debenture-stocks, stocks, funds, shares or securities of any corporation or company carrying on business in Hong Kong; (Amended 41 of 1999 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-stocks, funds, securities, vessels, goods and chattels for the time being vested in the corporation, upon such terms as the corporation may deem fit;
to erect any buildings, messuages or tenements and effect any improvement thereto;
to borrow money upon such terms as the corporation shall think fit, and to raise money by public or private subscription; 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 shall be provided by its constitution.
The existing constitution of the unincorporated Hong Kong Society for the Blind shall be the constitution of the corporation, but the same may be changed or amended at any time and from time to time in accordance with its provisions for the time being in force.
The corporation shall forward to the Registrar of Companies for registration the following—
notice of the address of the registered office of the corporation and any change thereto;
a copy of the constitution and any amendment thereto, certified as correct by the chairman of the council;
a list of the names and addresses of the members of the council, and any change therein, certified as correct by the chairman of the council; and
the name and address of any person appointed under section 8 to sign deeds, documents and other instruments.
Notification in accordance with subsection (1) shall be made within twenty-eight days of any amendment or change, as the case may be.
Any person may inspect any of the documents registered under this section.
A fee of five dollars shall be payable for registering any document under this section.
A fee of one dollar shall be payable for inspecting the documents filed with the Registrar of Companies under this Ordinance.
All deeds, documents and other instruments requiring the seal of the corporation shall be signed by the chairman and the secretary of the council or by such other person or persons as the corporation 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.
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)