This Act may be cited as The Overseas Missionary Fellowship (Incorporation) Act 1957.
SourceAct 818
The Overseas Missionary Fellowship (Incorporation) Act 1957 (Revised - 2019)
Akta the overseas missionary fellowship (pemerbadanan) 1957 (disemak - 2019)
An Act to incorporate the Overseas Missionary Fellowship.
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In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—
“Corporation” means The Overseas Missionary Fellowship as incorporated under section 3;
“holder of the office” means John Morris Rockness, George Percival Moore and George Alexander Williamson being respectively the Secretary, the Southern Field Superintendent and the Northern Field Superintendent, who were appointed to the office of “The Overseas Missionary Fellowship” and includes their successors in office.
(1) The holder of the office of the Corporation shall for all purposes be a body corporate by the name of “The Overseas Missionary Fellowship” and shall have perpetual succession.
(2) The Corporation may sue and be sued in its name.
(3) The Corporation may—
(a) enter into contracts;
(b) acquire by purchase, gift, devise, bequest or otherwise; and hold movable and immovable property of every description and any interest in the property so acquired by the Corporation; and
(c) 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.
(1) The Corporation shall have a common seal which may be broken, changed, altered and made anew as the Corporation thinks fit.
(2) Until a seal is provided under this section, a stamp bearing the inscription “The Overseas Missionary Fellowship” may be used as the common seal of the Corporation.
(3) 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 Secretary of The Overseas Missionary Fellowship, who shall append his signature to the deeds, documents and other instruments and shall be countersigned by either of the Superintendents mentioned in subsection 3(1).
(4) The signing shall be sufficient evidence that the seal was duly and properly affixed and that the seal is the lawful seal of the Corporation.
The Corporation shall have an office in Peninsular Malaysia the address of which shall be notified to the Minister for Health and Social Welfare, particulars of which shall be published in the Gazette.
(Revised—2019)
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The Overseas Missionary Fellowship (Incorporation) Act 1957 (Revised - 2019) [Act 818] (Laws of Malaysia, lom.agc.gov.my). Retrieved via LawPlayer, https://lawplayer.com/my/act/act-818
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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).