This Act may be cited as the Salvation Army (Incorporation) Act 1956.
Act 690
Salvation Army (Incorporated) Act 1956
Akta angkatan takhlisan (pemerbadanan) 1956
An Act to incorporate the General of the Salvation Army.
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(1) The General for the time being of the Salvation Army (hereinafter referred to as βthe Generalβ) shall for all purposes be a body corporate by the name of βThe General of The Salvation Armyβ and the said body corporate (in this Act referred to as βthe corporationβ) shall have perpetual succession and a corporate seal.
(2) The corporation may enter into contracts and may sue and be sued and take all legal proceedings in any of the Courts of Peninsular Malaysia in its said name.
(3) The seal of the corporation may from time to time be broken, changed, altered and made anew as to the corporation seems fit, and until a seal is provided under this section a stamp bearing the inscription βThe General of The Salvation Armyβ, may be used as the corporate seal.
(4) The corporation may acquire by purchase, gift, devise, bequest or otherwise, and hold movable and immovable property of every description and any interest therein, and may sell, convey, transfer, assign, demise, lease, surrender, exchange, partition, charge, mortgage or otherwise dispose of or deal with any movable or immovable property so acquired by the corporation or vested in the corporation by this Act.
(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 General for the time being of the Salvation Army or his attorney duly authorized by a power of attorney registered under the Powers of Attorney Act 1949 [Act 424], and shall also be signed by the General or his attorney so authorized as aforesaid.
(2) Such signing shall be and be taken as sufficient evidence that the said seal was duly and properly affixed and that the same is the lawful seal of the corporation.
(1) Upon the lodging at the office of the Minister charged with responsibility for social welfare of a copy or copies certified by the Chief of the Staff of the Salvation Army or the Commissioner acting for the time being as the Chief of the Staff of the Salvation Army of a document or documents purporting to be or to record
the appointment of and acceptance of office of a General of the Salvation Army it shall be deemed to be conclusive in evidence that the person named in such certified copy or copies is the person duly authorized to exercise the office of the General until the recording and lodging of a similarly certified copy or copies as aforesaid.
(2) The lodging at the office of the Minister charged with responsibility for social welfare of such certified copy or copies shall be notified in the Gazette.
(1) The General shall have power to appoint an attorney for such time and purposes and with such powers as may be stated in the power of attorney which shall be registered under the Powers of Attorney Act 1949, and a certified copy whereof shall be lodged at the office of the Minister charged with responsibility for social welfare and the donee of the said power of attorney shall be deemed to be the duly authorized attorney of the General until the recording and lodging of a subsequent and similarly certified copy power of attorney duly registered under the Powers of Attorney Act 1949.
(2) Every such attorney shall from time to time by notice under his hand give to the Minister for Women, Family and Community Development an address for service particulars of which shall be inserted in the Gazette. All writs of summons, notices and legal process may be served upon the corporation by leaving them at such address for service.
All movable and immovable property situated in Peninsular Malaysia heretofore held by or conveyed, assigned, granted, leased, transferred, transmitted to or otherwise vested in the General of the Salvation Army incorporated under the Salvation Army Ordinance 1939 [S.S. Ord. No. 23 of 1939], of the Straits Settlements or held in trust by any person or corporation for the said corporation or for the Salvation Army or the General is hereby vested in the corporation for the respective estates and interests for which the same is held.
Nothing in this Act shall affect the rights of Her Majesty or of Their Highnesses the Rulers of the Malay States or of any body politic or corporate or of any other persons except such as are mentioned in this Act and those claiming by, from or under them.
The Salvation Army Ordinance 1939, of the Straits Settlements is hereby repealed.
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Salvation Army (Incorporated) Act 1956 [Act 690] (Laws of Malaysia, lom.agc.gov.my). Retrieved via LawPlayer, https://lawplayer.com/my/act/act-690
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Source: Laws of Malaysia, Attorney General's Chambers of Malaysia (lom.agc.gov.my). Not a copy of the Gazette printed by the Government Printer (Interpretation Acts 1948 and 1967, s 61).