Hong Kong Ordinances

WIDOWS AND ORPHANS PENSION ORDINANCE - SECT 7

Appointment and meetings of directors

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 63 of 1999 s. 3

(1) It shall be lawful for the Chief Executive to appoint any number of
officers not exceeding five and not less than three as directors, of whom one
shall be nominated as Chairman by the Chief Executive, for the purpose of
carrying out the provisions of this Ordinance, and to cancel the appointment
of any such person. (Amended 12 of 1910 s. 3; 50 of 1911 s. 4; 51 of 1911; 12
of 1912 Schedule; 13 of 1912 Schedule; 33 of 1939 Schedule; 20 of 1965 s. 2;
63 of 1999 s. 3)

(2) In the event of the death or absence from Hong Kong of a director, or in
the event of the cancellation of the appointment of any director, the Chief
Executive may appoint another officer to be a director in his place. (Amended
12 of 1910 s. 3; 50 of 1911; 51 of 1911; 12 of 1912 Schedule; 13 of 1912
Schedule; 33 of 1939 Schedule; 36 of 1987 s. 39; 63 of 1999 s. 3)

(3) Appointments of directors and cancellations thereof shall take effect from
the notification thereof in the Gazette. (Added 51 of 1911; 13 of 1912
Schedule)

(4) At every meeting of the directors the chairman, and in his absence the
senior officer present, shall preside. Every question shall be decided by the
vote of the majority present at the meeting; the chairman or in his absence
the officer presiding shall have a casting vote in addition to his vote as
director. There shall be no meeting at which there shall not be at least three
directors present and voting. (Amended 50 of 1911; 51 of 1911; 12 of 1912
Schedule; 13 of 1912 Schedule; 33 of 1939 Schedule; 20 of 1965 s. 2)