CHINESE ANGLICAN CHURCH BODY INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHINESE ANGLICAN CHURCH BODY INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 275.

CHINESE ANGLICAN CHURCH BODY
INCORPORATION.

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 Chinese
Anglican Church Body Incorporation Ordinance.

2. In this Ordinance-
'Bishop' rneans the Bishop of the Church of England
residing and officiating at Victoria;
'Chinese church body' means the church body of the
Chinese Anglican Church in Hong Kong constituted as
follows-
(a) the Bishop, who shall be chairman;
(b)a vice-chairman of the Chinese church body.
appointed by the Bishop by writing under his hand;
(c)all ordained pastors and clergy of Chinese race
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;
(d)the delegates appointed by the vestries of the
Chinese churches and chapels in the Colony;
(e)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;
'delegates' means the delegates elected by the vestries in
manner provided by the regulations made by the Chinese
church body;
'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
called the corporation.

(2) The corporation by the nairic aforesaid shall have
perpetual succession, and shall and may sue and be sued in
all courts, and shall and may have and Lise 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 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 power 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 requir-
ing the seal of the corporation shall be scaled 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 in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed
to affect the rights of His Majesty the King, His Heirs or
Successors, or the rights of any body politic or corporate or
of any other persons except such as are mentioned in this
Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under them.
Originally 18 of 1902. Fraser 18 of 1902. 37 of 1950. 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. 37 of 1950, Schedule.

Originally 18 of 1902. Fraser 18 of 1902. 37 of 1950. 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. 37 of 1950, Schedule.

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