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

7. Record of meetings
The honorary treasurer and secretary shall keep a minute book of such meetings, and proper entries shall be made therein of all business transacted at every meeting.
(22 of 2018 s. 18)

8. Method of voting
The voting at general or special meetings of the committee shall be decided by a show of hands.

9. Appointment and duties of business manager
(1) There shall be a business manager who shall be appointed by the committee for such period on such salary and on such terms as the committee may in their discretion think desirable and the salary shall be paid out of the funds of the corporation.
(2) Subject to the control of the committee and the chaplain, the business manager shall be entrusted with the upkeep and repair of the buildings, furniture and fittings of the institute, the management of all catering and messing arrangements and the office staff.

10. Use of institute; and powers of chaplain and business manager
(1) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (2), the institute shall be open to all seafarers irrespective of their religion or nationality. (22 of 2018 s. 19)
(2) Either the chaplain or the business manager shall have power to refuse to admit to and also power to expel from the premises of the institute any person whatever for any reason which such chaplain or business manager may decide to be sufficient.
(3) Any person aggrieved by any such decision of the chaplain or of the business manager may refer the matter to the committee for its decision which shall be final.

11. Duties of chaplain
The chaplain shall be in sole charge of the religious activities of the institute and shall care for and attend to all social arrangements and functions and to the visitation of ships and hospitals and he shall also be in charge of the launch “Dayspring” and of her crew and of any other launch from time to time owned or chartered by the corporation for its purposes.

12. Prohibition against serving in committee
Neither the chaplain nor the business manager shall be entitled to serve as a member of the committee or to vote at any meetings thereof but they may attend such meetings if the committee desires.

13. Power of appointment and dismissal of chaplain
The appointment or dismissal of the chaplain is to be made by The Mission to Seafarers, such appointment or dismissal being subject to the approval of the Archbishop of the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui and made after consultation with the committee.
(22 of 2018 s. 20)

14. Sale and consumption of liquors
Alcoholic liquors may be sold and consumed on the premises of the institute, subject to such conditions and restrictions as the committee may from time to time impose.

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

15. Use of church
(22 of 2018 s. 21)The church in the institute shall be used for divine service and worship according to the rites and ceremonies of the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui or for such services of any other Christian denomination as the chaplain or any person acting in his place may approve.
(L.N. 66 of 1970; 22 of 2018 s. 21)

16. Service and attendance to be voluntary
Divine service and worship shall be voluntary and the attendance thereat of any person using the institute shall also be voluntary.

18. Appointment of auditors
At the annual general meeting there shall be elected annually one or more auditors of the corporation.

19. Duties as auditors
(1) The auditor shall—
(a) examine and report upon all accounts and books of the corporation; and
(b) if and when required by the committee, audit and report upon any of such accounts and books.
(2) The accounts and books of the corporation shall be open for inspection by the auditor at all reasonable times.

20. Appointment of bankers
The bankers of the corporation shall be The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited and such other bankers as the committee may from time to time determine.
(L.N. 333 of 1989; 22 of 2018 s. 23)

21. Duty to pay moneys into bank account
All subscriptions and pecuniary donations and the income of investments and all other moneys from time to time forming part of the general funds of the corporation shall on receipt thereof be paid to the credit of the corporation with its bankers.

22. Investment and use of general funds
All moneys forming part of the general funds of the corporation shall be invested and controlled by the committee and used in any way it thinks fit in pursuance of the objects of the corporation.
(L.N. 51 of 1990)

23. Cheques and payments
Cheques and other payments of the corporation are to be signed or otherwise approved by a person or persons from time to time authorized by the committee.
(22 of 2018 s. 24)

### Sailors Home and Mission to Seafarers Incorporation Ordinance 《海員俱樂部法團條例》

1. Short title
This Ordinance may be cited as the Sailors Home and Mission to Seafarers Incorporation Ordinance.
(Amended 22 of 2018 s. 4)

1A. Interpretation
In this Ordinance—
former section 2(1) (原有第2(1)條) means section 2(1) of the Sailors Home and Missions to Seamen Incorporation Ordinance (Cap. 1042) that was in force immediately before the specified date;
specified date (指明日期) means the date on which the Sailors Home and Missions to Seamen Incorporation (Amendment) Ordinance 2018 (22 of 2018) comes into operation*.
(Added 22 of 2018 s. 5) Editorial Note:
* Operation date: 25 May 2018.

### Sailors Home and Mission to Seafarers Incorporation Ordinance 《海員俱樂部法團條例》

3. Appointment of members of committee
(1) For the purposes of the nomination mentioned in section 2(2)(c), a certificate from a director or the company secretary of Jardine Matheson Limited that a person has been nominated a member of the committee is sufficient. (Replaced 22 of 2018 s. 7)
(1A) For the purposes of the nomination mentioned in section 2(2)(d) and (e), a certificate from the chairperson or the chief executive officer of The Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce and a certificate from a member of the board of trustees or the secretary general of The Mission to Seafarers respectively that a person has been nominated a member of the committee is sufficient. (Added 22 of 2018 s. 7)
(1B) For the purposes of the nomination mentioned in section 2(2)(f), (fa) and (fb), a certificate from the chairperson of Amalgamated Union of Seafarers, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Seamen’s Union or Merchant Navy Officers’ Guild—Hong Kong respectively that a person has been nominated a member of the committee is sufficient. (Added 22 of 2018 s. 7)
(1C) For the purposes of the nomination of the honorary treasurer and secretary mentioned in section 2(2)(g), a certificate from the senior partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers Hong Kong that a person has been nominated a member of the committee is sufficient. (Added 22 of 2018 s. 7)
(2) The certificate of the Secretary for Transport and Logistics that any person was at the date of the certificate or had been at some previous specified date a member of the committee shall for all purposes be conclusive evidence of that fact. (Amended 39 of 1989 s. 5; L.N. 362 of 1997; L.N. 125 of 2004; L.N. 130 of 2007; L.N. 144 of 2022)