Cap 1066 - HONG KONG JUVENILE CARE CENTRE INCORPORATION ORDINANCE 1

Chapter: 1066 HONG KONG JUVENILE CARE CENTRE
INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

Gazette Number Version Date


Long title 30/06/1997


To provide for the incorporation of the executive committee of the Hong Kong Juvenile Care Centre.


[18 December 1953]

(Originally 40 of 1953)

Section: 1 Short title 30/06/1997


This Ordinance may be cited as the Hong Kong Juvenile Care Centre Incorporation Ordinance.

Section: 2 Interpretation 30/06/1997


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.


Section: 3 Incorporation 41 of 1999 01/07/1997


Remarks:
Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 41 of 1999 s. 3


(1) 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)

(2) 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.

(3) 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.

Section: 4 Powers of the corporation 41 of 1999 01/07/1997


Remarks:
Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 41 of 1999 s. 3


(1) 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)

(2) The corporation shall further have power to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, exchange, partition, yield



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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.

Section: 5 Seal 30/06/1997


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.

Section: 6 Saving 41 of 1999 01/07/1997


Remarks:
Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 41 of 1999 s. 3


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)