### Matilda and War Memorial Hospital Ordinance 《明德醫院條例》

5. Powers of corporation
(1) The corporation shall have power to do any of the following acts, namely, 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 or company, and also to purchase, acquire and possess goods and chattels of what nature and kind soever, and so that by virtue of the powers conferred by this subsection any investment or other property may be acquired whether or not it is producing or is expected to produce income. (Amended 21 of 1984 s. 3)
(2) The corporation shall further have power to do any of the following acts, namely, to borrow or raise money and to give securities for the repayment thereof, 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, and to enter into any contract or arrangement of any kind as the corporation may think fit:
Provided that the powers conferred by this section shall only be exercised for the purpose of endowing, supporting, maintaining, carrying on or otherwise promoting the work of the corporation. (Replaced 21 of 1984 s. 3)

6. Seal and sealing
All deeds and other instruments requiring the seal of the corporation shall be sealed in the presence of 2 members of the board of governors and shall be signed by 2 members of the board of governors.
(Replaced 21 of 1984 s. 4)

7. Internal management and amendment of constitution
All matters of internal management of the corporation including any amendment of the constitution shall be settled and carried out in accordance with the constitution.

8. Vesting of property
The property and assets of whatsoever description hitherto vested in the Hong Kong Bank Trustee Limited as custodian trustee for the corporation are hereby transferred to and vested in the corporation.
(Replaced 21 of 1984 s. 5)

### Matilda and War Memorial Hospital Ordinance 《明德醫院條例》

11. 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 41 of 1999 s. 3)

### Masonic Benevolence Fund Incorporation Ordinance 《共濟會慈善基金法團條例》

1. Short title
This Ordinance may be cited as the Masonic Benevolence Fund Incorporation Ordinance.
(Amended 50 of 1911; 1 of 1912 Schedule; 5 of 1924 s. 6)

2. Interpretation
In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires—
custodian trustee (保管受託人) means the custodian trustee appointed in accordance with section 5.
(Added 19 of 1966 s. 2)

3. Incorporation of trustees of Hong Kong and Far East Masonic Benevolence Fund
(1) The trustees of the Hong Kong and Far East Masonic Benevolence Fund, who have been certified as such on behalf of the corporation by a statutory declaration made by the secretary and filed with the Registrar of Companies, shall be a body corporate, hereinafter called the corporation

4. Execution of deeds, etc.
All deeds and other instruments requiring execution by the said corporation shall be sealed with its seal and signed in manner provided by its by-laws.
(Amended 51 of 1911; 2 of 1912 Schedule)

5. Appointment of custodian trustee
(1) HSBC Trustee (Hong Kong) Limited, shall be, and is hereby appointed, custodian trustee for the corporation to hold all or any property vested in it on behalf of the corporation upon the trusts declared in section 4(2) of the Public Trustee Act 1906 subject to the reference therein to the Trustee Act 1893 being construed to refer to the Trustee Ordinance (Cap. 29), and the appointment of the custodian trustee shall be upon the usual terms and conditions for the time being in force including those governing the right to remuneration in accordance with the published scale of fees or such other scale of fees as may from time to time be agreed between the custodian trustee and the corporation. (Amended 94 of 1995 s. 3)
(2) The corporation may at any time appoint another corporation as custodian trustee in place of the HSBC Trustee (Hong Kong) Limited as to the corporation may seem fit provided that the outgoing trustee is given not less than 3 months prior notice in writing of such appointment. (Added 94 of 1995 s. 3)
(Added 19 of 1966 s. 4)

### Masonic Benevolence Fund Incorporation Ordinance 《共濟會慈善基金法團條例》

6. Keeping of accounts
The corporation shall keep proper books of account with respect to all sums of money received and expended by the corporation and the matters in respect of which the receipt and expenditure takes place and the assets and liabilities of the corporation. The corporation instead of keeping such accounts itself may employ the custodian trustee to keep such accounts and may pay the custodian trustee for such work.
(Added 19 of 1966 s. 4)

7. Adoption and making of by-laws, etc.
(1) The said corporation may adopt the existing by-laws of the Hong Kong and Far East Masonic Benevolence Fund, so far as they are not inconsistent with this Ordinance, and may (notwithstanding that such existing by-laws provide that alterations therein can be proposed only at the annual meeting therein mentioned) alter the same, or may frame other by-laws for its internal management and control. (Amended 50 of 1911; 1 of 1912 Schedule; 94 of 1995 s. 4)
(2) All such by-laws, when agreed upon by the said corporation, shall be binding on every member thereof.
(3) A copy of the by-laws, and of any amendment thereof, certified as correct by the secretary, shall be deposited and filed with the Registrar of Companies. (Amended 50 of 1911; 51 of 1911; 1 of 1912 Schedule; 2 of 1912 Schedule)

8. Fees
(1) The corporation shall pay such fees for registering any document with any public registry as may be payable under the regulations made under section 26 of the Companies Ordinance (Cap. 622) for the registration with the Registrar of Companies of a document.
(2) 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.
(Replaced 94 of 1995 s. 5. Amended 28 of 2012 ss. 912 & 920)

9. Saving
Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed to affect the rights of Her Majesty the Queen, Her Heirs or Successors, 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.
(Replaced 37 of 1950 Schedule)