HOP YAT TONG CHURCH OF CHRIST HONG KONG INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

HOP YAT TONG CHURCH OF CHRIST HONG KONG INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 290.

HOP YAT TONG CHURCH OF CHRIST HONG KONG
INCORPORATION.

To Provide for the incorporation of the Hop Yat Tong
Church of Christ Hong Kong.

[17th July, 193I.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Hop Yat Tong
Church of Christ Hong Kong Incorporation Ordinance.

2. The trustees for the time being of the Hop Yat
Tong Church of Christ Hong Kong shall be a corporation
sole, hereinafter called the corporation, and shall have the
name of 'The Trustees of the Hop Yat Tong Church of
Christ Hong Kong' and in that name shall have perpetual
succession and shall and may sue and be sued in all courts
in the Colony and shall and may have and use a common
seal.

3. (1) The corporation shall have power to acquire,
accept leases of, purchase, take, hold and enjoy any lands,
buildings, 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 Government, municipality, cor-
poration, company or person, and also to purchase, acquire
and possess vessels and other goods and chattels of what
nature and kind soever.

(2) 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, mes-
suages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds,
shares or securities, or vessels or other goods and chattels,
which are for the time being vested in or belonging to the
corporation, upon such terms as to the corporation may seem
fit.

4. The legal estate in any property whatsoever trans-
ferred to the corporation in any manner whatsoever shall in





the event of the death of any of the trustees for the time
being or in the event of any trustee ceasing to hold office
as such trustee pass to his successor in such office when
appointed.

5. (1) Whenever any persons are appointed to the
office of, trustees of the Hop Yat Tong Church of Christ
Hong Kong such persons shall within three weeks after their
appointment or within such further time as may be allowed
by the Governor furnish to the Governor satisfactory
evidence of their appointment.

(2) A notification in the Gazette under the hand of the
Colonial Secretary that such evidence has been furnished to
the Governor by such person shall be conclusive evidence of
such appointment.

6. All deeds and other instruments requiring the cor-
porate seal of the corporation shall be scaled in the presence
of the trustees and shall be signed by thern.

7. 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. [8
Originally 19 of 1931. Fraser 19 of 1931. Short title. Interpretation. Powers of corporation. Property transferred to corporation to pass to successors. Trustees. Execution of documents. Saving.

Originally 19 of 1931. Fraser 19 of 1931. Short title. Interpretation. Powers of corporation. Property transferred to corporation to pass to successors. Trustees. Execution of documents. Saving.

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