To provide for the incorporation of the Council of St. Paul’s Co-educational College.
[29 June 1962]
(Format changes—E.R. 2 of 2022)
This Ordinance may be cited as the Council of St. Paul’s Co-educational College Incorporation Ordinance.
In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires—
constitution (章程) means the constitution of the Council of St. Paul’s Co-educational College approved from time to time by its members for the time being in accordance with the constitution for the time being in operation; corporation (法團) means the body incorporated by section 3.The Council of St. Paul’s Co-educational College shall be a body corporate, and shall have the name of “The Council of St. Paul’s Co-educational College”, and in that name shall have perpetual succession and may sue and be sued in all courts in Hong Kong and shall have and may use a common seal.
(Amended 55 of 2000 s. 3)
The corporation shall have full power—
to manage, administer and operate St. Paul’s Co-educational College;
to acquire, accept leases of, purchase, take or otherwise hold and enjoy any land, buildings, messuages or tenements of what nature or kind soever and wheresoever situate; (Amended 14 of 1983 s. 2)
to acquire, by purchase or otherwise, goods and chattels of any kind or description;
to invest moneys on deposit in any bank in Hong Kong or elsewhere or in any Hong Kong or other 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 or elsewhere; (Amended 55 of 2000 s. 3)
to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, yield up, mortgage, demise, let, reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of, any land, buildings, messuages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, debenture-stocks, 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 for the time being, or for carrying into effect the provisions of this Ordinance.
The corporation shall consist of such members as shall be provided by its constitution.
The constitution of the unincorporated Council of St. Paul’s Co-educational College in operation at the commencement* of this Ordinance shall be the constitution of the corporation:
Provided that the same may be changed or amended by the corporation from time to time in the manner provided by the constitution for the time being in operation.
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 corporation;
a list of the names and addresses of the members of the corporation and any change therein, certified as correct by the chairman of the corporation; 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 28 days of any amendment or change, as the case may be.
Any person may inspect any of the documents registered under this section, upon payment of such fees as may be payable under any enactment relating thereto.
The corporation shall pay such fee for registering any document with any public registry 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 and the secretary of the corporation 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 55 of 2000 s. 3)