Treasurer of Presbyterian Church, Singapore Ordinance 1899

Section 1

This Ordinance may be cited as the Treasurer of Presbyterian Church, Singapore Ordinance.

Section 2

(1)

Francis Warrack and his successors for the time being in the office of Treasurer of the said congregation, duly qualified as hereinafter provided, shall be a body corporate, hereinafter called the corporation, and shall for the purposes of this Ordinance have the name of “The Treasurer of the Presbyterian Church in Singapore”, and by that name have perpetual succession and shall and may have and use a corporate seal.

(2)

The said seal may from time to time be broken, changed, altered and made anew as the corporation thinks fit.

(3)

The corporation may acquire, purchase, take, hold and enjoy movable and immovable property of every description, and may sell, convey, assign, surrender and yield up, mortgage, demise, reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any movable and immovable property vested in the corporation upon such terms as the corporation thinks fit.

Section 3

(1)

All deeds, documents and other instruments requiring the seal of the corporation shall be sealed with the seal of the corporation in the presence of the said Francis Warrack or his attorney duly authorised by a power of attorney registered under section 48 of the Conveyancing and Law of Property Ordinance [1955 Ed., Cap. 243], or in the presence of his successor for the time being in the said office of Treasurer or his attorney duly authorised as aforesaid, and shall also be signed by the said Francis Warrack or his said attorney or by his said successor or his said attorney.

(2)

Such signing shall be sufficient evidence of the due sealing of such deeds, documents and other instruments.

Section 4

(1)

No successor of the said Francis Warrack in the office of Treasurer of the said congregation shall be deemed to be duly qualified as aforesaid unless and until he has caused an extract from the minutes of the Board of Managers of the said congregation appointing him such Treasurer, certified as correct by the Chairman of the Board, to be filed in the office of the Minister of the Colony, and unless and until a notification of such filing has appeared in the Gazette.

(2)

Such notification shall be sufficient evidence of the appointment and that the person named therein is duly qualified as by this Ordinance is required.

Section 5

(1)

The persons now trustees of the said indenture of the fourteenth day of February, 1879, and of the Statutory Land Grant of the sixteenth day of August, 1892, are hereby removed from their offices of trustees.

(2)

The corporation is hereby appointed sole trustee of the said instruments in place of them notwithstanding the provisions contained in the said instruments, providing against the number of the trustees thereof not being less than two, and the powers of appointing new trustees contained in the said instruments are hereby cancelled.

Section 6

The pieces of land described in Schedule A are hereby vested for the respective residues of the said terms of nine hundred and ninety-nine years mentioned in Schedule A in the corporation, subject to the payment of the rents and to the observance and performance of the covenants and conditions contained in the leases mentioned in Schedule A, and subject also to the said thirty-one indentures of leases, but nevertheless upon the trusts contained in the said indenture of the fourteenth day of February, 1879.

Section 7

The piece of land described in Schedule B is hereby vested in the Corporation for an estate in fee simple, but nevertheless upon the trusts contained in the said Statutory Land Grant of the sixteenth day of August, 1892.

Section 8

Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect the rights of Her Majesty, or of any bodies politic or corporate, or of other persons than such as are trustees of the said indenture of the fourteenth day of February, 1879, and of the said Statutory Land Grant of the sixteenth day of August, 1892.