### St. Stephen’s College Council Incorporation Ordinance 《聖士提反書院教委會法團條例》

3. Objects of Council
The objects of the Council are—
(a) to carry on and extend the work for which the College was originally founded by offering to the youth of Hong Kong and elsewhere a modern, well-balanced and liberal education upon the Christian principles as professed by the Church;
(b) subject to the power under section 32 or 40AD of the Education Ordinance (Cap. 279), to establish, sponsor, operate and manage the College and other schools and educational institutions in Hong Kong and elsewhere;
(c) to oversee the performance of the management committee or the incorporated management committee;
(d) to carry out and perform any other lawful act, work, enterprise or thing of a charitable nature; and
(e) to do all things that are necessary for or incidental or conducive to any of the above objects.
(Replaced 7 of 2006 s. 7)

4. Powers and duties of Council
(1) The Council shall have—
(a) all powers and duties prescribed in this Ordinance; and
(b) all powers and duties specified in the Constitution which do not conflict with this Ordinance.
(2) The Council may delegate its powers in accordance with the Constitution.
(Replaced 7 of 2006 s. 8)

5. Common seal
(1) The common seal of the Council shall be affixed only with the authority of a resolution of the Council.
(2) The affixing of the common seal of the Council shall be authenticated by the signatures of 2 members of the Council.
(Replaced 7 of 2006 s. 9)

6. Constitution
(1) The Constitution may contain—
(a) provisions to regulate—
(i) the composition of the Council;
(ii) the operation of the Council and the control of its expenditure;
(iii) the management of the Council property and College property of all kinds; and
(iv) the performance generally of the Council’s functions;
(b) provisions providing for the powers and duties of the Council; and
(c) all other related or incidental provisions which do not conflict with this Ordinance.
(2) Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance and the Constitution and to the prior approval of the Standing Committee of the Church, the Council may from time to time adopt, alter, amend, add to or repeal the Constitution.
(3) The Constitution is not subsidiary legislation.
(Replaced 7 of 2006 s. 10)

6A. Emblems
Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance and the Constitution, the Council may from time to time—
(a) adopt or change its emblem or emblems; and
(b) adopt or change the emblem or emblems of the College.
(Added 7 of 2006 s. 11)

### St. Stephen’s College Council Incorporation Ordinance 《聖士提反書院教委會法團條例》

6B. Particulars to be delivered to Registrar of Companies
(1) The Council shall forward to the Registrar of Companies for registration—
(a) notice of the address of the Council and any change of the address;
(b) a copy of the Constitution and any amendment to it, certified as correct by the Chairman or the Secretary; and
(c) the names of members of the Council and any change of the names, certified as correct by the Chairman or the Secretary.
(2) Notification under subsection (1) shall be made within 28 days after the commencement date* of the St. Stephen’s College Incorporation (Change of Name of the Council of St. Stephen’s College and General Amendments) Ordinance 2006 (7 of 2006) or, in the case of any amendment or change, within 28 days of such amendment or change, as the case may be.
(3) Any person may inspect any of the documents registered under this section upon payment of such fee as may be payable under the regulations made under section 26 of the Companies Ordinance (Cap. 622) for the inspection of a document. (Amended 28 of 2012 ss. 912 & 920)
(4) The Council shall pay such fee for registering any document with the Registrar of Companies under this section as may be payable under the regulations made under section 26 of the Companies Ordinance (Cap. 622) as if the Council were a company not having a share capital. (Amended 28 of 2012 ss. 912 & 920)
(Added 7 of 2006 s. 11)Editorial Note:
* Commencement date: 15 May 2007.

6C. Indemnity
(1) Every Council member, office-bearer and officer and any person employed by the Council as auditor shall be indemnified by the Council against all losses, costs and liabilities for any act, deed or matter done for and on behalf of the Council for which he is sued by any person (not being the Council) in his own name.
(2) In this section, officer (高級人員) shall include a member of any sub-committee of the Council and any person to whom the Council has delegated any of its powers.
(Added 7 of 2006 s. 11)

6D. Change of name does not affect identity
For the avoidance of doubt, the identity of the body corporate incorporated under section 2 shall not be affected by the commencement of the St. Stephen’s College Incorporation (Change of Name of the Council of St. Stephen’s College and General Amendments) Ordinance 2006 (7 of 2006).
(Added 7 of 2006 s. 11)

### St. Stephen’s College Council Incorporation Ordinance 《聖士提反書院教委會法團條例》

7. Saving
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)

### St. Joseph’s College Incorporation Ordinance 《聖約瑟書院法團條例》

1. Short title
This Ordinance may be cited as the St. Joseph’s College Incorporation Ordinance.

2. Incorporation
The director in Hong Kong of St. Joseph’s College and his successors for the time being in the office of the director in Hong Kong of St. Joseph’s College shall be a body corporate, hereinafter called the corporation

3. Powers of corporation
The corporation shall have full power—
(a) to acquire, accept leases of, purchase, take, hold and enjoy any immovable property situate in Hong Kong;
(b) to sell, assign, surrender, yield up, transfer, mortgage, charge, demise, reassign or otherwise dispose of and deal with any immovable property vested in the corporation upon such terms as to the corporation may seem fit;
(c) to invest moneys on mortgage of any immovable property in Hong Kong or in or upon such other securities as to the corporation may seem fit.
(Amended 55 of 2000 s. 3)

4. Execution of documents
All deeds and other instruments requiring the seal of the corporation shall be sealed in the presence of the person who is for the time being the director in Hong Kong of St. Joseph’s College or of his attorney duly authorized, and such deeds and instruments and all other documents, instruments and writings requiring the signature of the corporation shall be signed by such director in Hong Kong or his attorney.

5. Consent to sales of lands
No assignment by way of sale of the pieces or parcels of ground respectively registered in the Land Registry at Victoria in Hong Kong as Inland Lot No. 1506 and the Remaining Portion of Inland Lot No. 1642, or any other lands, buildings, messuages or tenements situate in Hong Kong which may at any time hereafter be vested in the corporation, shall be valid without the authority of the Supérieur Général of the Society of the Brothers of the Christian Schools known in French as “L’Institut des Frères des Ecoles Chrétiennes”, such authority to be signified in writing signed by the said Supérieur Général.
(Amended 8 of 1993 s. 2; 55 of 2000 s. 3)