Malaysia legislation
Section 5
Section 5
(1)
For the purpose of carrying out any of the objects and functions set out in section 4, the Council may—
(a)
acquire or accept leases, purchase, take, hold and enjoy any land, building, messuage or tenement of whatsoever nature or kind;
(b)
invest moneys on deposit in any bank or on mortgage of any land, building, messuage or tenement in the State or any part of Malaysia or in or upon mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities or any corporation or company carrying on business in the State or elsewhere;
(c)
purchase and acquire all manners of goods and chattels whatsoever;
(d)
grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, yield up, mortgage, demise, reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any land, building, messuage and tenement, mortgage, debenture, stock, fund and security, goods and chattels for the furtherance of the objects of the Council;
(e)
receive Government grants, donations or accept any gift of property, whether subject to any special trust or not;
(f)
take such steps by personal or written appeals, public meetings, or otherwise, as may from time to time be deemed expedient, for the purpose of procuring contributions to the Fund;
(g)
enter into any contract or undertake and execute any trust; and
(h)
generally do such acts as it thinks fit for the purpose of achieving any of the objects of the Council.
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(2)
The Council may by writing, subject to such conditions or restrictions as it may impose, delegate the exercise of any of its powers or the performance of any of its functions under this Enactment to the President, Secretary or any other person as the Council may think fit: Provided that no such delegation shall preclude the Council itself from exercising any of the powers or performing any of the functions so delegated.
Members of the Council.