CHINESE ANGLICAN CHURCH BODY INCORPORATION ORDINANCE, 1902

CHINESE ANGLICAN CHURCH BODY INCORPORATION ORDINANCE, 1902

No. 18 of 1902.
An Ordinance to provide for the incorporation of the
Church Body of the Chinese Anglican C1varch in,
Hongkong.
.[30th June, .1902.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Chinese Anglican
Church Body Incorporation Ordinance, 1902.

2. In this Ordinance,
(a) The Bishop means the Bishop of * the Church of
England residing and officiating at Victoria.
(b) Chinese Chureh Body rneans the Church Body of
the Chinese Anglican Church in Hongkong constituted as
follows

(i) the Bishop, who shall be chairman;

(ii) a vice-chairman of the Church Body appointed by the
Bishop by writing under his hand;

(iii) all ordained pastors and clergy of Chinese raeo
officiating in Chinese Anglican churches and chapels in
the. Colony with the licence of the Bishop, and all clergy of

non-Chinese race who are acting pastors of such churches
and chapels with such licence as aforesaid;
. (iv) the delegates appointed by the vestries of the Chinese
churches and chapels in the Colony;
(v) so long as the Chinese Anglican Church in Hongkong
uses buildings belonging in whole or in part to the society
known as the Church Missionary Society, or is dependent
on the help of that society in education or other work, the
secretary in Hongkong of the Church Missionary Society.

(c) Delegates means the delegates elected by the
vestries in manner provided by the regulations made by the
Chinese Church Body.

(d)' Vestry means the body. constituted in mannor
provided by the regulations made by the Chinese Church
Body . for the management of each -place of worship
es.tabli.shed by it.

As amended by Lass, Itev.~ Ord., 1924,





3. A certificate under the hand of the Bishop, or, in his
absence from the Colony, of the vice-chairman of the
Chinese Church Body, that any persons therein named are
~the persons constituting such Body, or that any regulations
annexed to such certificate are the regulations of the Chinese
Church Body, shall be accepted for all purposes as sufficient
proof of the fact that such persons are the persons constitut-
ing such Body, or that such regulations were duly made
and are in force.

4.-(1) The Chinese Church Body shall be a body
corporate under the name of The Church Body of the
Chinese Anglic ,in Church in Hongkong. (hereinafter
referred to as the corporation).
(2) The corporation by the name aforesaid shall have
perpetual succession, and shall and may sue and be sued
in all.courts, and shalL and may have and use a common
seal, and may break, change, alter and make anew the said
seal as to the corporation may seem fit.
(3) The corporation shall have power to acquire, accept
leases of, purchase, take, hold and enjoy any lands, build-
ings, messuages or tenements of what natare or kind soever
and wheresoever situated, and also to invest moneys upon
nortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements,
or upon the mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares
or securities of any corporation or company, and also to
purchase, acquire and possess goods and chattels of what
nature and kind sovever.
(4) The corporation shall further have power by deed
under its seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender,
exchange, partition, yield up, mortgage, demise, re-assign,
transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings,
messuages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds,
shares, or securities, or goods and chattels, which are
vested in or belong to the corporation upon such terms as
to the corporation may seem fit.

5. All deeds, documents and other instruments requiring
the seal of the corporation shall be sealed therewith in the
presence of the Bishop, or, in his absence from the Colony,
of the vice-chairman , and shall also be signed by the Bishop,
or by such vice-chairman , in whose custody the seal shall
be kept.


6. Nothing herein contained shall affect or be deemed to
affct the rights of His Majesty the King.

No.19 of 1902, repealed by No. 34 of 1910

NO.20 of 1902, incorporated in No.1 of 1873

No.21 of 1902, incorporated in No.1 of 1860

Nos 22,23,24,25 and 26 of 1902, repealed by
No.8 of 1912.

No.27 of 1902, repealed by No.8 of 1912

No.28 of 1902, repealed by No.31 of 1911

No.29 of 1902, repealed by No.19 of 1903

No.30 and 31 o 1902, repealed by No.8 of 1912

No.32 of 1902, incorporated in No. 10 of 1902

No.33 of 1902, repealed by No.8 of 1912

No.34 of 1902, incorporated in No. 1 of 1889

No.35 of 1902, repealed by No.25 of 1909

No.36 of 1902, incorporated in No.1 of 1844

No.37 of 1902, repealed by No.46 of 1909

No.38 of 1902, incorporated in No.16 of 1901

No.39 of 1902, repealed by No.5 of 1905

No.40 of 1902, repealed by No.15 of 1908.

No.41 of 1902, incorporated in No.6 of 1901

No.42 of 1902, incorporated in No.1 of 1870

No.43 of 1902, repealed by No.43 of 1912. [originally no. 18 of 1902. Law Rev. ord., 1924]. Short title . Interpretation . proof of the constitution of the church body and of its regulations. Incorporation. Succession and seal . Power to hold property. Power to dispose fo property . Use of send. saving of rights of the crown.

[originally no. 18 of 1902. Law Rev. ord., 1924]. Short title . Interpretation . proof of the constitution of the church body and of its regulations. Incorporation. Succession and seal . Power to hold property. Power to dispose fo property . Use of send. saving of rights of the crown.

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