VICTORIA HOME FOR INCURABLES

Whereas the committee of the institution known as the Victoria Home for Incurables has applied to be incorporated for the purpose of effectually transacting the affairs of the said institution, and of controlling, managing, and dealing with the property and funds thereof, and it is expedient that the said application be granted:

Be it therefore enacted by the Governor of Ceylon, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative
Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Victoria Home for Incurables Ordinance.

2. The Colonial Secretary, Henry Lorenz Wendt, the Colonial Treasurer, Colin Alexander Murray, the Principal Civil Medical Officer, John Ferguson, Sir William Wilson Mitchell, the Mayor of Colombo, the Rev. Arthur Edwin Dibben, the Rev. Osmund Beven, Keith William Bruce Macleod, Jacob de Mel, Alexander de Alwis Seneviratne, the Rev. William Arthur Stone, Lewis Walker, and Frederick Morgan de Saram, being the present members of the committee of the Victoria Home for Incurables, and their respective successors appointed in manner hereinafter provided, are hereby associated together and shall for ever hereafter be and be called a body corporate in deed and in law by the name and style of “The Incorporated Victoria Home for Incurables”, under which name the corporation hereby constituted may sue and be sued : Provided that, from the 1st day of October, 1928, the Government Agent, Western Province*, shall be a member of the said committee for all purposes whatsoever in place of the Colonial Secretary, and the said committee shall, from the said date, be deemed to be incorporated as hereinbefore provided with the Government Agent, Western Province*, as a member thereof in place of the Colonial Secretary;

Provided, further, that from the 1st day of March, 1951, the Deputy Secretary to the Treasury, shall be a member of the said committee for all purposes whatsoever in place of the Colonial Treasurer, and the said committee shall, from the said date, be, and be deemed to have been, incorporated as hereinbefore provided with the Deputy Secretary to the Treasury, as a member thereof in place of the Colonial Treasurer.

* To be construed as a reference to the Government Agent of the administrative district of Colombo as from 14th April, 1955 – Section 7 (8) of the Administrative Districts Act.

3. The Incorporated Victoria Home for Incurables (which is hereinafter referred to as ” the Victoria Home”) shall have an official seal which shall be officially and judicially noticed, and that seal shall be authenticated by the signature of the secretary or some person authorized by rule passed under this Ordinance to act on behalf of the secretary.

4. All moneys, goods, chattels, and effects whatsoever, and all securities for obligatory instruments, and evidences or monuments of title and all other effects, and all rights and claims, whether belonging to the said committee at the date of the passing of this Ordinance or acquired by the Victoria Home after the passing of this Ordinance, shall be vested in the Victoria Home.

5. The Victoria Home shall have perpetual succession, and shall at all times hereafter be able and capable in law to purchase, acquire, hold, and enjoy in perpetuity, or for any lesser term, any property movable or immovable of what nature or kind so ever, and to invest the funds of the Victoria Home in securities of the Government of Ceylon, or in any mortgage of movable or immovable property in Ceylon, and also in the purchase or acquisition of such goods, chattels, and things as may be proper or requisite for the purposes of the Victoria Home.

6. The Victoria Home may erect or cause to be erected any buildings on any lands so purchased or acquired or held or enjoyed by them, and may also from time to time sell, grant, convey, demise, assign, exchange, and dispose of or mortgage any property for the time being vested in the Home.

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9. The President may from time to time nominate persons to fill vacancies whether occasioned by death, resignation, or otherwise in the number of nominated members, and may appoint persons to act in the place of nominated members temporarily disabled from discharging their duty by sickness, absence from Colombo, or any other cause and may revoke any nomination or appointment so made, and may make such new nomination or appointment in lieu thereof as to the President may seem fit.

10. The members of the Victoria Home may from time to time, in accordance with any rule made under this Ordinance, elect persons to fill vacancies occasioned as aforesaid in the number of the elected members, and may also elect persons to act in the place of elected members temporarily disabled as aforesaid.

11 The members of the Victoria Home may appoint from among their number a secretary and a treasurer, or may appoint one of their number to hold both such offices, and may revoke any appointment so made.

12. It shall be lawful for the Victoria Home at any meeting convened for that purpose to make, and from time to time to revoke, vary, or amend such rules as to them or the major part of the members present shall seem necessary for any of the following purposes:-