MORATUWA SOCIAL SERVICE SOCIETY

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Moratuwa Social Service Society Ordinance.

2. From and after the date of the commencement of this Ordinance, the members for the time being of the Moratuwa Social Service Society (hereinafter referred to as the ” society”) and such and so many persons as shall after that date be members of the society shall be and become a body corporate (hereinafter referred to as the ” corporation”) with perpetual succession under the name and style of “The Moratuwa Social Service Society ” and by that name may sue and be sued in all courts.

3. The general objects for which the society is constituted are the rendering of social service and the promotion of the social service work in the town of Moratuwa by the provision of facilities for the relief of poverty, distress, sickness, unemployment and illiteracy and by the establishment and maintenance of homes for the aged and destitute and schools and by such other measures as may be necessary for the purposes of the society.

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5. No rule made by the society at a general meeting shall be altered, amended or revoked except by the votes of at least two- thirds of the members present at any subsequent general meeting, provided that no such rule or regulation shall however be made to convert the property of the Home for the Aged or moneys earmarked for the said Home for any other purpose.

6. The corporation shall be able and capable in law to receive and to hold property, both movable and immovable, which may be vested in it by virtue of any purchase, grant, gift, testamentary disposition or otherwise; and all such property shall be held by the corporation for the purposes of this Ordinance and subject to the rules for the time being of the said corporation with full power (subject to any trust attaching to such property and to the law regulating such trusts) to sell, mortgage, lease, exchange or otherwise dispose of the same.

7. From and after the date of the commencement of this Ordinance all property of the society, both movable and immovable, whether held in the name of the society or in the name of any person or persons in trust for the society, shall be and is hereby vested in the corporation, and such property together with all after-acquired property, both movable and immovable, and all subscriptions, donations, loans and other moneys received or to be received shall be held by the said corporation for the purposes of this Ordinance and subject to the rules for the time being of the society.

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9. Nothing in this Ordinance contained shall affect or be deemed to affect the rights of the Republic, or of any body politic or corporate, or of any other persons, except such as are mentioned in this Ordinance and those claiming by, from, or under them.