KOWLOON TONG CHURCH OF THE CHINESE CHRISTIAN AND MISSIONARY ALLIANCE INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

KOWLOON TONG CHURCH OF THE CHINESE CHRISTIAN AND MISSIONARY ALLIANCE INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 294.

KOWLOON TONG CHURCH OF THE CHINESE
CHRISTIAN AND MISSIONARY ALLIANCE
INCORPORATION.

To provide for the incorporation of the Kowloon Tong
Tong Church of the Chinese Christian and.
Alliance.

[2nd June, 1950.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Kowloon Tong
Church of the Chinese Christian and Missionary Alliance
Incorporation Ordinance.

2. The trustees for the time being of the Kowloon
Tong Church of the Chinese Christlan and Missionary
Alliance shall be a body corporate, hereinafter called th c
corporation, and shall have the name 'The Trustees of 1he
Kowloon Tong Church of the Chinese Christian and
Missionary Alliance' 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 and may break change alter and make anew the said
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,
corporation, 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,
messuages, 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 vest in the trustees for the time being duly
appointed.

5. The number of the trustees shall be not less than
three nor more than five.

6. The office of any trustee shall be automatically
vacated if such trustee shall die or shall resign his office
or if a resolution be passed at a meeting of members of the
said Kowloon Tong Church requiring the resignation of
such trustee or if his term of office shall come to an end.

7. New trustees shall be proposed for election by the
committee at a general meeting of the members of the said
Kowloon Tong Church and when elected shall (subject to
the provisions of the last preceding section) hold office for
the term of five years from the date of such election.
Trustees whose term of office has expired shall be eligible
for re-election.

8. (1) Any change in membership of the trustees shall
within three weeks of such change be notified by, the
publication of a notice in the Gazette.

(2) No such change shall be deerned to have been made
until a notification of such change has been published in
the Gazette.
(3) The production of a copy of the Gazette containing
nny such notification shall be prima facie evidence of a
change in membership of the trustees.

(4) The trustees shall when required by, the Governor
furnish to him satisfactory proof of the succession election
or appointment of any new trustee.





9. All deeds documents and other instruments requir-
ing the seal of the corporation shall be scaled in the presence
of three or more of the trustees and shall also be signed by
three of the trustees so present and such signing shall be
and be taken as sufficient evidence of the due sealing thereof.

10. A committee of management, hereinafter called the
committee, shall be elected from among and at a meeting of
the members of the said Kowloon Tong Church to be held
within three months of the coming into force of this
Ordinance and those elected shall appoint a chairman, a
secretary and a treasurer from those elected. One third of
the committee shall refire annually but shall be eligible for
re-election.

11. The committee may appoint a clergyman or pastor
to perform and carry on divine worship and the services
usual in the Christian and Missionary Alliance Churches
and may also remove hirn and appoint a successor and all
matters connected with the religious services of the said
Kowloon Tong Church shall be under the immediate direc-
tion of the clergyman or pastor subject to the control of
the committee.

12. The temporal affairs of the said Kowloon Tong
Church shall be managed directed and governed by the
committee.

13. All books deeds papers and other documents
belonging to the sald Kowloon Tong Church shall be under
the care and custody of the chairman of the committee.

14. It shall, be lawful for the committee to make
regulations relating to the following matters-
(a)the number qualification and disqualification of
members of the committee;
(b)the holding of meetings of the committee and the
conduct of business thereat;
(c)the temporary appointment of a clergyman or pastor
during the absence from any cause of the holder of
that post;
(d)the election and tenure of office of an auditor and
the filling up of casual vacancies among the
committee;





(e)the appointment, tenure of office, salary and duties
of any organist or other officer or servant as the
committee may think necessary or expedient;
(f) the keeping of a register of members of the said
Kowloon Tong Church and of baptisms marriages
and burials;
(g)the holding of meetings of members, the right of
voting and the taking and recording of the votes
at such meetings and the conduct of business
thereat;
(h) the appropriation, allotment, arrangement and use
of the sittings in the said Kowloon Tong Church ;-
(i)the rents and subscriptions (if any) to be paid for
sittings in the said Kowloon Tong Church and the
mode of collection thereat, the fees to be taken for
baptisms, marriages and burials or other services
and the collection and disposition of money offer-
ings offertories and donations;
(j) the keeping of accounts of monies received and
expended by the committee;
(k)the erection and maintenance of monuments, tablets,
or other memorials in the said Kowloon Tong
Church or in the precincts thereof and the fees to
be taken therefor ; and
(l)all other matters relating to the affairs of the said
Kowloon Tong Church or of the committee other-
wise than where specifically, provided for by this
Ordinance.

15. No regulations made by the committee under the
last preceding section shall be binding on the members of
the said Kowloon Tong Church until such regulations have
been passed by a majority of members present and voting
at a general meeting of members.

16. 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.
13 of 1950. Short title. Description and incorporation. Powers of corporation. Transfer of property. Number of trustees. Vacation of office by trustees. New trustees. Their appointment and tenure of office. Notification of changes of trustees. Execution of deeds. Election of committee of management and appointment of officers. Appointment and removal of clergyman or pastor. Committee to control temporal affairs. Custody of documents. Power of committee to make regulations. Regulations not binding until approved. Saving.

13 of 1950. Short title. Description and incorporation. Powers of corporation. Transfer of property. Number of trustees. Vacation of office by trustees. New trustees. Their appointment and tenure of office. Notification of changes of trustees. Execution of deeds. Election of committee of management and appointment of officers. Appointment and removal of clergyman or pastor. Committee to control temporal affairs. Custody of documents. Power of committee to make regulations. Regulations not binding until approved. Saving.

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