Indian Red Cross Society Act, 1920
No: 15 Dated: Mar, 20 1920
THE INDIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY ACT, 1920
ACT No. 15 OF 1920
An Act to constitute an Indian Red Cross Society.
WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for the future administration of the various monies and gifts received from the public for the purpose of medical and other aid to the sick and wounded, and other purposes of a like nature during the late war, and more especially for the administration of the monies and property held by a Committee known as the Joint War Committee, Indian Branch, of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in England and the British Red Cross Society;
AND WHEREAS it is expedient to constitute an Indian Red Cross Society with a view to the continuation in peace time, on a wider basis and with a wider purpose, of the work carried on by the said Committee during the war, and to provide for the affiliation therewith of other societies and bodies having similar objects;
It is hereby enacted as follows:—
1. Short title.—(1) This Act may be called the Indian Red Cross Society Act, 1920
2. Constitution of Indian Red Cross Society.—There shall be constitued by this Act a Society to be known as the Indian Red Cross Society (hereinafter called the Society). The first members of the Society shall be nominated by persons who immediately before the commencement of this Act were members of the Joint War Committee, Indian Branch, of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in England and the British Red Cross Society (hereinafter called the Committee) at a meeting to be summoned and held for that purpose in accordance with the usual practice of the Committee within three months from the commencement of this Act. The number of members to be so nominated shall not be less than twenty-five or more than fifty.
3. Appointment of Managing Body.—The Committee shall also at the same meeting appoint from among the members nominated under section 2 of the Managing Body of the Society (hereinafter called the Managing Body), the members of which shall hold office as such until a new Managing Body is appointed as hereinafter provided. The number of members of the Managing Body shall not be less than ten or more than thirty.
4. Incorporation.—The first members of the Society and all persons who may hereafter become members thereof so long as they continue so to be, are hereby constituted a body corporate under the name of the Indian Red Cross Society, and the said body shall have perpetual succession and a common seal with power to hold and acquire property, moveable and immoveable, and shall sue and be sued by the said name.
[4A. President of the Society.—The President of India shall be the President of the Society (hereinafter referred to as the President).