CHINESE ANGLICAN CHURCH BODY INCORPORATION ORDINANCE, 1902

CHINESE ANGLICAN CHURCH BODY INCORPORATION ORDINANCE, 1902

No. 11 of 1902, incorporated in No. 15 of 1901.
No. 12 of 1902, repealed by No. 15 of 1908.

No. 13 of 1902, repealed by No. 8 of 1912.
No. 14 of 1902, repealed by No. 10 of 1903.
No. 15 of 1902, incorporated in No. 7 of 1875.

No. 16 and 17 of 1902, repealed by No. 8 of 1912.

No. 18 of 1902.

An Ordinance to provide for the incorporation of the Church
Body of the Chinese Anglican Church in Hong Kong.

[4th July, 1902.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Chinesd 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 Church Body' means the Church Body of
the Chinese Anglican Church in Hong Kong 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 race officiat-
ing 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 Hong Kong 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 Hong Kong 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 manner provided by
the regulations made by the Chinese Church Body for the
management of each place of worship established by it.

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
constituting 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 Anglican
Church in Hong Kong' (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, buildings, messuages of
tenements of what nature or kind soever and wheresoever situated,
and also to invest moneys upon mortgage 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 soever.





(4) The corporation shall further have ppwer by deed under its seal to
grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, exchange, partition, yield up, mortgage,
demise, reassign, 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 vicechairman, 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 affect 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,
repealed by No. 16 of 1930.

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 of 1902, repealed by No. 8 of 1912.

No. 32 of 1902, incorporated in No. 10 of 1902.
[Originally No. 18 of 1902.] 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 of property. Use of seal. Saving of rights of the Crown.

[Originally No. 18 of 1902.] 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 of property. Use of seal. Saving of rights of the Crown.

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