Singapore legislation
Section 5
Section 5
Objects and purposes
(1)
The objects and general purposes for which the Corporation is established and incorporated are —
to take over the property vested in the Corporation by section 4 hereof and to carry on and maintain the Hospital with all necessary furniture and other equipment as a Christian Mission Hospital and Dispensary for the treatment as in-patients or out-patients of women and children suffering from disease or accident without distinction of race, language or creed;
to instruct women in the proper care of their children;
to train Asiatic girls to nurse women and children;
to offer to those who desire it a knowledge of Christianity.
(2)
To employ medical, surgical and pharmaceutical officers, nurses and attendants for the purposes aforesaid, and to provide and supply all such medical, surgical, and pharmaceutical appliances and things, and all such provisions and necessaries as may be required for the purposes aforesaid or any of them.
(3)
To solicit and accept and receive subscriptions, donations, devises and bequests (whether of immovable or movable property and whether absolute or conditional) for the general purposes of the Corporation or for any special purpose of the Corporation or subject to any trust.
(4)
To purchase or otherwise acquire land for any estate or interest and to erect buildings and maintain, alter and improve the same (including the Hospital) and to provide the same with light, water, drainage and other necessities.
(5)
To raise money for any of the above purposes or other purposes of the Corporation by mortgaging or charging all or any of the property of the Corporation (other than the Hospital) with capital sums or with terminable annuities for lives or years.
(6)
To hold, control and administer the moneys, funds, securities and property movable and immovable hereby vested in the Corporation or hereafter given to or in any manner acquired by or being in the custody or control of the Corporation and the income thereof, in accordance with the trusts or for the purposes affecting the same respectively, or in the absence of any special trust or purpose, for the general purposes of the Corporation and in particular to invest any money for the time being requiring investment in any investment authorised by law for trust funds or in the purchase of immovable property.
(7)
To do all such other lawful things as are incidental or conducive to the attainment of the above objects.