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

4. Objects of corporation
(1) The corporation shall carry on the work and objects heretofore carried on both by the trustees of the Sailors Home and by The Missions to Seamen in Hong Kong before the establishment of the body corporate under the former section 2(1), which, as regards the trustees of the Sailors Home, are the care of officers and men of the Mercantile Marine irrespective of their religion and also the provision of a suitable institute or home for the seafaring classes and officers and men aforesaid, and as regards The Missions to Seamen in Hong Kong are the provision of an institute for and the spiritual welfare of the seafaring classes and in pursuance of such work and objects the use of every means consistent with the principles and accepted practice of the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui; and the corporation shall continue to carry on such work and objects.
(2) The corporation shall promote the spiritual moral and physical well-being of seafarers and their families at home and overseas and in pursuance of such objects the corporation may use any means consistent with the principles and accepted practice of the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui.
(Replaced 39 of 1989 s. 2. Amended 22 of 2018 s. 8)

4A. Powers of corporation
(1) The corporation shall have power to acquire, accept and grant leases of, take, hold and enjoy any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements of what kind or nature 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 or company, and also to purchase, acquire and possess vessels and other goods and chattels of whatsoever kind or nature.
(2) The corporation shall further have power by deed under its seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, exchange, partition, yield up, mortgage, pledge, demise, reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of whether for valuable consideration or by way of gift or donation or otherwise any lands, buildings, messuages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, funds, moneys, stocks, shares or securities, or other goods and chattels, which are for the time being vested in or belonging to the corporation, and may use and disburse the funds income principal and other moneys belonging to the corporation in pursuance of the objects of the corporation in such manner and upon such terms as the corporation may think fit.
(Added 39 of 1989 s. 3)

5. Execution of documents
All deeds and other instruments requiring the seal of the corporation shall be sealed in the presence of 3 members of the committee and shall be signed by 3 members.

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

6. Power to make regulations
The corporation may, subject to the approval of the Chief Executive in Council, by a resolution passed by the majority of the committee, by regulation provide, from time to time as may in its discretion seem desirable, for the administration of the corporation and the management of the premises and property of whatever description thereof, with the exception that regulation 11 and that part of regulation 13 which relates to the chaplain shall not in any way be altered except with the consent of The Mission to Seafarers.
(Amended 22 of 2018 s. 9)

8. 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 person except such as are mentioned in this Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under them.
(Amended 22 of 2018 s. 11)

### Pontifical Foreign Missions Institute Incorporation Ordinance 《宗座外方傳教會法團條例》

1. Short title
This Ordinance may be cited as the Pontifical Foreign Missions Institute Incorporation Ordinance.

2. Incorporation
The Procurator for the time being in Hong Kong of the Pontifical Foreign Missions Institute shall be a corporation sole, hereinafter called the corporation

3. Power 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 Pontifical Foreign Missions Institute, 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) When any person is appointed to the office of Procurator in Hong Kong of the Pontifical Foreign Missions Institute 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 32 of 1999 s. 3)

### Pontifical Foreign Missions Institute Incorporation Ordinance 《宗座外方傳教會法團條例》

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)