CHINA CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH ORDINANCE, 1912

CHINA CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH ORDINANCE, 1912

No. 36 of 1912.

An Ordinance to provide for the incorporation of the
Church Body of the China Congregational church in
Hongkong.
[1st November, 1912.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the china Congrega-
tional Church Ordinance, 1912.

2.-(1) The mmebers of the Church Body of the China
Congregational Church in Hongkong, shall be a body
corporate under the name of The Church Body of the
China Congregational Church in Hongkong (hereinafter
referred to as the corporation).

* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.



(2) the corporation by the name aforesaid shall have
perpetual sucession, and shall and may sue and be sued
in all courts, and shall and may have and use a common
seal, and may fromtime to time 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 nature or kind soever
and wheesoever situated and also to invest upon mortgage
of any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements, or upon
the mortgages, debentrures, stocks, funds, shares or securities
of any corporation of company, and also to purchase,
acquire and possess goods and chattels of what nature and
kind soever.

(4) The corporation shall further have power by deed
under its seal to grants, sell, convey, assign, surrender,
exchange, partition, yield up, mortgage, demise, re-assign,
transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings,
messuages, tenements, mortgages, debentrures, stocks, funds,
shares or securities, or goods and chattels, which are for the
time beig vested in or belonging to the corporation upon
such terms as to the corporation may seem fit.

3. The corporation shall keep at its principal church or
meeting place a register of the memebers of the China
Congregational Church in Hongkong, and shall enter in
such register the names of all such persons as are in the
opinion of the corporation proper pesons to be admitted as
memebers of the said church. Such book is hereinafter
referred to as to the register of members, and the persons
whose names appear therein as members of the church.

4. Upon the death or resignation or removal from office of
any member of the Church Body aforesaid, a successor to the
person so dying, retiring or being removed shall be ap-
pointed by a majority of the membes of the church prescent
at a meeting convened for the purpose by the cor-
poration. The names of every person so elected shall be
entered in the register of members with the date of election
and particulars of the office to which such person is elected,
and every such entry shall be signed by at least four mem-
bers of the Church Body.


5. The services of the church shall be regulated and
conducted by the pastor of the church for the time being in
accordance with the principles of the Christian religion based
upon the Old and New Testaments, and in accordance as far
as possible with the practice of the Congregational Churches
now in existence in Europe and America.

6. Subject to the provisions of section 5, the corporation
may make regulations for the services of the church, and
the management of its property and affairs generally. All
such regulations shall be laid before a meeting of the mem-
bers convened for the purpose, and if approved by a
majority of the members present at such meeting shall be
binding on the corporation and upon all members of the
church. A copy of any such regulations sealed with the
common seal of the corporation and countersigned by any
four members of the Church Body shall be accepted is
evidence of such regulations having been regularly made
and confirmed.

7. The regulations may provide for the removal from office
or from membership of the church of any member of the
Church Body or the church by the vote of at least two-thirds
of the members of the church.

8. Every meeting held under Ordinance he con-
vened by posting a notice of the time an dplace for holding
such meeting and the nature of the business to be discussed
upon the door of the principal or other meeting place
of the corporation in Hongkong on the two Sundays next
preceding the date of the meeting.

9. All deeds, documents and other instruments requiring
the seal of the corporation shall be sealed with the common
seal of the corporation and signed by at least four of the
members of the Church Body for the time being.

10. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed
to affect the rights of His Majesty the King.

No. 37 of 1912, repealed by No. 43 of 1912.
[Originally No. 36 of 1912. Law Rev. Ord., 1924.] Short title. Incorporation. Succession and seal. Power to acquire property. Register of members. Filling vacancies in Church Body. Conduct of services, etc. Power to make regulations. Removal of members. Convening meetings. Use of seal. Saving of right of Crown.

[Originally No. 36 of 1912. Law Rev. Ord., 1924.] Short title. Incorporation. Succession and seal. Power to acquire property. Register of members. Filling vacancies in Church Body. Conduct of services, etc. Power to make regulations. Removal of members. Convening meetings. Use of seal. Saving of right of Crown.

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