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E No.

18 of 1958.

OD (INCORPORA'rION) ORDINANCE, 1958.

I assent.

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)_g April, 1958.

Governor.

BRITISH GUIANA.

Arrangement of Sections.

Rection to be deemed a body corporate.

of property.

1.

Short title.

Interpretation.

2.

3.

Guiana Mission Power to dh:;pose 4.

Change in i>ffice-bearers 5. property 6.

Power to appoint 7.

Present 8.

Authorised 9.

Proceedings 10.

Signature execution.


office-bearers by authorised hy or against or interest in British attorney representatives.

11.

Saving the right� of Her Majesty.

Guiana.

or attorneys.

of th':!

General Council.

the Guiana Mission.

repr�sentatives to be deemed fo;rmal of General Council not to affect AN ORDINANCE to incorporate the British Guiana Mission Assemblies of God and for purposes connected of the therewith .

Enaqted by the Legislature of British Guiana:- A.fl.

1958.

1.
1958.

1.

This Ordinance may be cited as the ssemblies of God Short title, (IncorporRtion) Ordinance, 1958.

2 No.

18.J THE LAWS OF BRITISH GUIANA [A.D. 1958, Jnterpreta­ ti()n. 2.

In tJ1is (1rdinance, unless the context otherwise re- (JHil'Ni -- "the Geueral Coundl'' means the General Council of of God, of Springfield t Missouri, the AssemblieH United.

States of America.
States of America.

under the laws of the State of Missomi in the United States of l\.merica; "Guiana Mission" incorporated of God in means the Assemblies to in sec·tion 3 of th.is Ordinance.

Gnjana refer!.·ed in tl1e Guiana Mission to be deemed a body cor­ porate.
the General Secretary :1 The General Superinteudent, Mi:::sions Secretary for th� time being of the General shall he deemed to be in British the Ii'oreign Conneil and shall be known and described Guiana, by pm·chase, gift, conveyanN�, movable property therein, h1�fore all judges or magistrates transfer, and bv that name shall have full power to bold or acquire grant, bequest, donation, transpc,rt, in British Guiana or any estate or exchange, or otherwise, any movable or im­ and and rnav sue and be sued in all courts of justice as the Assemblies of God in of British devise, G-niana.
and Guiana a body corporate, interest Power to dis­ pose of pro,.

perty.

4.

The Guiana Mission shall be entitled to sell, transport.

lease or oth�rwise dispose of and d€'al with, all mortgage� property in or acquired botll movable and immovable by the Gniana Mission.

for the time being vested ers Change in omce•bear of General Council not to affect property mterest British Gui• ana.
General Sec1·etary 5 No ehang� r)f thf• 1wrsons holding the office of General Secre­ Superintendent, tary of the General Council shall affect any movable or immov ... able pronertv ested in tht� Guiana Mission, sha1l continue to tlle �ame extent as before.

and interest therein in the same way and to vest in the Gufana !\fission or anv estate or interest or Foreign Missions but that property and estate therein v <:Jr in �ower to •P­ point attor­ ney or littor• neys.
G. The General Superintendent, the General Secretary and Secretary toge I her or separately, the Foreign l\fiss.ions Counc-il, body to appoint an attorney British and with the 1,owers for the time being of the General �hall have power as a corporate or attorne:vs to represent then1 in Guiana for the purposer of thi.s Ordinance for tlw time stated in the power of attorney.

Present office-bearers o,r the Gen• eral Council.

7.

Ralph M. Riggs; .J.


Roswell Flower and Noel Perkins, Springfield !n the United 1, Missouri, General be deemed to be the present Secre­ 484 W. Pacific Street, States of Americ'a, slrnll Superintendent, tary) resp�ctively.

and Foreign Missions of the General Council.

General Secretary of ed Authoris representa­ tives.

8.
8.

When a power of attorney, duly executed in the United States of Am€rica by the General Superintendent, the Secretary and the Foreign Missions Secretary of the General Council� in :the Deed� Registrv named jn that power shall be deemed to be the duly authorised.

representative or one Qf those officers, in Briti�h for the time being has been recorded Guianat the person or persons in British Guiana of the Guiana or representatives General 3 A.D. 1958] ASSEMBLIESOF GOD (INCORPORATION) [No.
18. and shall have the right to ex rcise in relation to the and.affairs of the Griiana all the powers (but Mission as fully and as effectually by the General as if Super­ personally and the Foreign Mi�sions Mission, property those on1y) containe<l those powers were exercised intendent, the General Secretary Secretary as a corporate 9.

In all legal proceedings of p,_.ocess therein body.

in British Proceedings Guiana against � or against upon the representative the Guiana Mission.
the or or 0n the pastor for the time being service Guiana Mission, representatives aforesaid, appointed by the General or, if there is :not that representative process of the Guiana Mission be good and sufficient on a conspieuous Council situate service.

mortgages, 3.nd othe!'


documents � as head of the Guiana Mission, part of any· of the buildings or pastor, by affixing the or churches shall in the City of Georgetown, - cancellation Signature authorised necessary representa­ tives to be acts and things or any of them mentioned deemed for­ mal execu­ ticn.

8 and 4 of this Ordinance, by or on behalf of the Guiana Mission, to shall of mortgages: to give effect requiring to by executed if signed by the duly authorised h1 sections 10.
All transports, leases, transfers, the several matters, :1nd specified oe formally be deemed sufficiently representative whereunder attorney execution of the document matter, act, or th.ing.

executed if the power of the to act authorises or doino-of the or representatives aforesaid or the .. performance he or they purport 11.

Nothing in this Ordinance right of Her Maj��sty any body politic except such as are mentioned .

ing by, from, through the Queen, Her Heirs and Successors.
or of any other person or persons h1 this Ordinance or corporate or under them.

and those claim- shall be deemed to affect any or of Saving the rights Majesty.

of Her (Leg.

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