### Salesian Society Incorporation Ordinance 《鮑思高慈幼會法團條例》

1. Short title
This Ordinance may be cited as the Salesian Society Incorporation Ordinance.

2. Incorporation
The Procurator for the time being in Hong Kong of the Salesian Society shall be a corporation sole, hereinafter called the corporation

3. Powers of corporation
(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, and also to invest moneys upon mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements or upon the mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities of any government, municipality, corporation, company or person, and also to purchase, acquire and possess vessels and other goods and chattels of what nature and kind soever.
(2) The corporation shall further have power by deed under its seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, exchange, partition, yield up, mortgage, demise, reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings, messuages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities, or vessels or other goods and chattels, which are for the time being vested in or belonging to the corporation, upon such terms as to the corporation may seem fit.

4. Property transferred to corporation to pass to successors
The legal estate in any property whatsoever transferred to the corporation in any manner whatsoever shall in the event of the death of the Procurator for the time being in Hong Kong of the Salesian Society, or in the event of his ceasing to hold office as such Procurator, pass to his successor in such office when appointed.

5. Appointment of Procurator
(1) Whenever any person is appointed to the office of Procurator in Hong Kong of the Salesian Society such person shall within three weeks after his appointment or within such further time as may be allowed by the Chief Executive furnish to the Chief Executive satisfactory evidence of his appointment.
(2) A notification in the Gazette under the hand of the Chief Secretary for Administration that such evidence has been furnished to the Chief Executive by such person shall be conclusive evidence of such appointment. (Amended L.N. 226 of 1976; L.N. 242 of 1994; L.N. 362 of 1997)
(Amended 33 of 1939; G.N. 840 of 1940 Supp. Schedule; 32 of 1999 s. 3)

### Salesian Society Incorporation Ordinance 《鮑思高慈幼會法團條例》

6. Execution of documents
All deeds and other instruments requiring the seal of the corporation shall be sealed in the presence of the said Procurator or his attorney and shall be signed by him or his attorney, and such signing shall be taken as sufficient evidence of the due sealing of such deeds and other instruments, and all deeds, instruments and other documents and writings requiring the signature of the corporation shall be signed by such Procurator or his attorney.

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 32 of 1999 s. 3)

### Sailors Home and Mission to Seafarers Regulations 《海員俱樂部規例》

1. Citation
These regulations may be cited as the Sailors Home and Mission to Seafarers Regulations.
(22 of 2018 s. 13)

2. Interpretation
In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—
committee (委員會) means the committee incorporated under the Ordinance as “The Sailors Home and Mission to Seafarers”; (22 of 2018 s. 14)
institute (會所) means the premises used by the corporation in connexion with its work.

3. Control and management of institute, etc.
The supreme control and management of the institute and of the premises and property of whatever description of the corporation shall be vested in the committee.

4. Time for holding general meetings, and business to be transacted thereat
(1) General meetings of the committee shall be held from time to time in each year on such day and at such hour as the committee shall direct.
(2) One of the general meetings to be held in each year shall be called the annual general meeting and at such meeting a report of all the affairs of the corporation and an account of the receipts, expenditure and property of the corporation together with a statement of accounts for the preceding year shall be presented and there shall be elected a chairperson and auditors for the ensuing year. At such annual general meeting such other business shall be transacted as may be necessary.
(22 of 2018 s. 15)

5. Requisition to convene special meeting
Special meetings of the committee may be convened at any time on the requisition of the chairperson, or by not less than 4 members of the committee, by a notice specifying the object of the meeting and at any special meeting convened on such requisition no business shall be transacted other than that specified in the requisition.
(22 of 2018 s. 16)

6. Power of chairperson of the committee to convene meetings; chairperson and quorum thereof
(22 of 2018 s. 17)(1) General or special meetings of the committee shall be convened (subject to regulation 5) by direction of the chairperson of the committee, and 7 days’ notice in writing thereof shall be given by the honorary treasurer and secretary to the members of the committee then within Hong Kong.
(2) At every general or special meeting of the committee the chair shall be taken by the chairperson or, in the absence of the chairperson, a chairperson of the meeting to be nominated by the members of the committee present of whom 6 shall be a quorum.
(22 of 2018 s. 17)