Treasurer of Presbyterian Church, Singapore Ordinance 1899

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.

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

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.

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 deposited under section 48 of the Conveyancing and Law of Property Act 1886, 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.

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

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.

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

The persons now trustees of the said indenture of 14 February 1879, and of the Statutory Land Grant of 16 August 1892, are hereby removed from their offices of trustees.

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 2, and the powers of appointing new trustees contained in the said instruments are hereby cancelled.