Complete Memorandum of the Hong Kong College of Family Physicians

1. 1. To establish and maintain high standards of learning, skill and conduct in the general/family practice or practice in general practice / family medicine.
      
      
   2. To establish and maintain facilities for general practitioners in medicine and other organizations calculated directly or indirectly to further the objects of the College.
      
      
   3. To encourage and assist research by any persons (whether members of the College or not) into medical, surgical, scientific or other subjects, also the publication of books, monographs, articles and other writings by such persons upon such subjects.
      
      
   4. To encourage and assist persons (whether members of the College or not) to arrange, take part in, undergo, undertake and carry out training courses, schools, seminars, symposia, conferences, and other activities in relation to medical, surgical, scientific or other fields of knowledge which the College considers are calculated to improve the knowledge and skill in those fields or any of them of the persons taking part in them or to extend knowledge and raise standards of learning generally in those fields or any of them.
      
      
   5. To arrange for and provide instruction by members of the College or other persons of undergraduate or post-graduate students in medicine, surgery or allied or associated sciences or subjects at or in any University, Medical School, Hospital, Laboratory or other training school or teaching institution.
      
      
   6. To provide, endow or support scholarships, lectureships, readerships and professorships in subjects appertaining to or associated with the general / family practice or practice in general practice / family medicine.
      
      
   7. To give, grant, issue or bestow diplomas, certificates and other tokens and distinctions in recognition of proficiency or attainment in the general / family practice or practice in general practice / family medicine or in any subject cognate to such general / family practice or practice in general practice / family medicine; and any such tokens or distinctions as may be awarded upon examination or thesis or honoris causa for outstanding work or in appreciation of special services to the College or the medical profession or in any other circumstances or upon any other grounds as the College considers appropriate.
      
      
   8. To encourage and assist such persons or categories of persons as the College thinks fit to enter the profession of medicine and to become general practitioner / family physician therein.
      
      
   9. To establish, provide and maintain rooms, offices, libraries, lecture-halls, consulting rooms, wailing-rooms, laboratories, and other facilities for members of the College and such other persons (if any) as the College thinks fit.
      

1. In furtherance of the objectives of the College to publish or cause to be published and acquire, buy, sell, exchange or dispose of books, periodicals, papers, pamphlets, memoranda and other written or printed material.
   
   
2. To promote social intercourse and good fellowship amongst members of the College and amongst persons engaged in the general / family practice or practice in general practice / family medicine and to promote good relations among such members and persons and the rest of the community or other sections of the community.
   
   
3. To effect any of the foregoing objectives by grants of money or by any other means or in any other manner as the College thinks fit.
   
   
4. To do all or any of the objectives referred to in this clause either alone or in conjunction or association or cooperation with any persons or bodies corporate or unincorporate.
   
   
5. in furtherance of the objectives of the College to acquire by purchase, hire, lease, exchange, application, grant or otherwise howsoever:
   
   
   1. any real property and any estate or interest therein, whether such property be leasehold property or be held under any other tenure;
      
      
   2. any casement or other right or interest in any such property;
      
      
   3. any personal property;
      
      
   4. any patents, patent rights or inventions, copy-rights, designs, trade marks, secret processes, technical information, licenses, franchises and other rights, privileges and concessions.
      
      
6. To sell, let, dispose of or grant rights over or otherwise deal with all or any of the property and rights of the College.
   
   
7. To erect or reconstruct buildings for the purpose of the College.
   
   
8. To grant licences to use patents, copyrights, designs or secret processes of the College.
   
   
9. To borrow money or to receive money on deposit or by way of gift or legacy for any of the objects of the College.
   
   
10. In furtherance of the objectives of the College to guarantee the contracts or liabilities of any person or body (corporate or unincorporate).
    
    
11. To secure the payment of money borrowed by or the performance of liabilities undertaken by the College by debentures, debenture stock (dated or undated) mortgage, charge or other security charged on the undertaking or all or any of the property and rights of the College.
    
    
12. In furtherance of the objectives of the College to invest any moneys of the College in any investment specified in the Second Schedule of the Trustee Ordinance, Cap. 29 or in any other investment (including deposits in a bank outside Hong Kong) which may be authorised by the court on summary application for that purpose made in chambers also to lend money on the security of any property on which the College can lawfully lend in accordance with Section 11(1) of the Trustee Ordinance, aforesaid.
    
    
13. To draw, make, accept and negotiate bills of exchange promissory notes and other negotiable instruments.
    
    
14. To pay all the costs, charges and expenses of the formation, establishment and management of the College.
    
    
15. To accept and hold property on trust provided that the trusts of such property are calculated directly or indirectly to further the objects of the College.
    
    
16. To hold or promote competitions of any description authorised by law which may be calculated to further the objects of the College.
    
    
17. To grant pensions end allowances to any employees or ex-employees or their dependents; to make payments in or towards insurance; and to subscribe or guarantee money for charitable or benevolent objectives or for any public, general or useful objective.
    
    
18. To subscribe to or otherwise aid benevolent, charitable governmental or other institutions, associations or objectives of a public character or which in the opinion of the College shall have any moral or other claim to be supported by the College.
    
    
19. To engage, employ and dismiss officers, managers, clerks, technicians, professors, readers, lecturers, servants and other persons whose employment may be necessary or convenient or desirable for the attainment of the objectives of the College; and to pay any of such persons, such salaries, wages, remuneration, allowance or other emoluments as the College shall think fit; and establish superannuation and other funds for the benefit of such persons whether with or without contributions from the College.
    
    
20. To do all such other things as are incidental or conducive to the attainment of the foregoing objectives or any of them.
    
    
21. To do all or any of the things hereinbefore authorised in any part of the world.
    

1. 1. To draw, make, accept and negotiate bills of exchange promissory notes and other negotiable instruments.
      
      
   2. To pay all the costs, charges and expenses of the formation, establishment and management of the College.
      
      
   3. To accept and hold property on trust provided that the trusts of such property are calculated directly or indirectly to further the objects of the College.
      
      
   4. To hold or promote competitions of any description authorised by law which may be calculated to further the objects of the College.
      
      
   5. To grant pensions end allowances to any employees or ex-employees or their dependents; to make payments in or towards insurance; and to subscribe or guarantee money for charitable or benevolent objectives or for any public, general or useful objective.
      
      
   6. To subscribe to or otherwise aid benevolent, charitable governmental or other institutions, associations or objectives of a public character or which in the opinion of the College shall have any moral or other claim to be supported by the College.
      
      
   7. To engage, employ and dismiss officers, managers, clerks, technicians, professors, readers, lecturers, servants and other persons whose employment may be necessary or convenient or desirable for the attainment of the objectives of the College; and to pay any of such persons, such salaries, wages, remuneration, allowance or other emoluments as the College shall think fit; and establish superannuation and other funds for the benefit of such persons whether with or without contributions from the College.
      
      
   8. To do all such other things as are incidental or conducive to the attainment of the foregoing objectives or any of them.
      
      
   9. To do all or any of the things hereinbefore authorised in any part of the world.
      
      
2. The liability of the members is limited
   
   
3. The income and properly of the College whencesover derived, shall be applied solely towards the promotion of the objectives of the College as set forth in the Third Clause of this Memorandum of Association, and no portion thereof shall be paid or transferred directly or indirectly, by way of dividend, bonus or otherwise howsoever by way of profit in money or in kind to persons who at any time are or have been members of the College, or to any of them or to any person claiming through any of them: PROVIDED that nothing herein shall prevent the payment, in good faith, or reasonable and proper remuneration to any officer or servant of the College or to any member of the College, in return for any services actually rendered to the College, nor prevent the payment of interest at a rate not exceeding the rate for the time being charged by bankers in Hong Kong for overdrawn accounts, or reasonable and proper rent for premises demised or let by any member to the College; but so that no member of the council of management or governing body of the College shall be appointed to any salaried office of the College, or any office of the College paid by fees, and that no remuneration or other benefit in money or money's worth shall be given by the College to any member of such council or governing body except repayment of out-of pocket expenses and interest at the rate aforesaid on money lent or reasonable anti proper rent for premises demised or let to the College; provided that the provision last aforesaid shall not apply to any payment to any company of which a member of the council of management or governing body may be a member in which such member shall not hold more than one-hundredth part of the capital, and such member shall not be bound to account for any share of profits he may receive in respect of such payment.
   
   
4. The Fifth and Tenth Clauses of this Memorandum contain conditions on which a licence is grantcd in pursuance of Section 21 of the Companies Ordinance, Chapter 32.
   
   
5. Every member of the College undertakes to contribute to the assets of the College, in the event of it being wound up while he is a member, or within one year after he ceased to be a member for the payment of the debts and liabilities of the College contracted before he ceases to be a member, and of the costs, charges and expenses of winding up the College, and for the adjustment of the rights of the contributors amongst themselves, such amongst as may bc required not exceeding ten dollars.
   
6. If upon the winding-up or dissolution of the College there remains, after satisfaction of all its debts and liabilities any property whatsoever, the same shall not be paid to or distributed among the members of the College but shall be given or transferred to some other institution or institutions having objectives similar to the objectives of the College, and which shall prohibit the distribution of its or their income and property among its or their members to an extent at least as great as is imposed on the College under or by virtue of Clause 5 hereof, such institution or institutions to be determined by the members of the College at or before the time of dissolution, and in default thereof by a judge of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong having jurisdiction in regard to charitable funds, and if and so far as effect cannot be given to the aforesaid provision then to some charitable objective.
   
   
7. Whenever used in this Memorandum of Association, unless the context indicates a contrary intention, words importing the singular number include the plural, and vice versa.
   
8. No addition, alteration or amendment shall be made to or in the regulations contained in the Memorandum and Articles of Association for the lime being in force, unless the same shall have been previously submitted to and approved by the Registrar General in writing.
   
   
9. True accounts shall be kept of the sums of money received and expended the College, and the matters in respect of which such receipts and expenditure take place, and of the property, credits, and liabilities of the College; and, subject to any reasonable restrictions, as to the time and manner of inspecting the same that may be imposed in accordance with the regulations of the College for the time being in force, shall be open to the inspection of the members. Once at least in every year, the accounts of the College shall be examined and the correctness of the balance sheet ascertained by one or more properly qualified Auditor or Auditors.