KOWLOON UNION CHURCH INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

KOWLOON UNION CHURCH INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 295.

KOWLOON UNION CHURCH INCORPORATION.

To provide for the incorporation of the Kowloon Union
Church.

[15th September, 1939.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Kowloon Unioll
Church Incorporation Ordinance.

2. The trustees for the time being of the Kowloon
Union Church shall be a body corporate tinder the name of
the 'Tritstees of the Kowloon Union Church', hereinafter
referred to as the corporation.

3. 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 from time to time break, change, alter and make
anew the said seal as to the corporation may seem fit.

4. The corporation shall have power to acquire, accept
leases of, purchase, take, hold and enjoy any lands, build-
ings, messuages or tenements of whatever nature or kind
soever and wheresoever situated also any endowments of
the Kowloon Union Church and the investments and
securities representing the same, and also to invest moneys
upon mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages or
tenements or upon mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds,
shares or securities of any Government, municipality, cor-
poration, company or person and also to purcliase acquire
and possess goods and chattels of whatever nature and kind
soever.

5. The corporation shall further have power by deed
under its seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, lease, 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, 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.





6. (1) When any persons are appointed trustees of
the Kowloon Union Church in accordance with the con-
stitution of the said Church Such persons shall within three
weeks after appointment or within such further time as may
be allowed by the Governor, furnish the Governor with
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 any such person shall be conclusive
evidence Of Such appointment. [7

7.All deeds and other instruments requiring the scal
of the corporation shall be sealed with the common seal of
the corporation and signed by at least two of the
trustees. [8

8.The services at the Kowloon UniOn Church shall
be regulated and conducted in accordance with the constitu-
tion of the said Church and in such manner as to provide
that fellowship in public worship and in spiritual communion
and service which is the privilege and usance of all
Christians and to spread the knowledge of the purpose of
God in Jesus Christ and to unite in fellowship Christians of
various denominations and of different countries in the
worship of God in accordance with the principles and usages
of Protestant Evangelical Christians. [10

9. 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. [11

10. The expression 'Kowloon Union Church' shall
where the context so permits refer not only to the Church
buildings from time to time used as the Kowloon Union
Church but also to the members of the said Church duly
enrolled in accordance with the constitution of the said
Church. The expression 'the constitution of the said
church' means the code of rules and regulations for manage-
ment and conduct of the Kowloon Union Church adopted
by the members thereof at the date of this Ordinance or as
the same may be altered from time to time in the prescribed
manner. [12
36 of 1939. Short title. Incorporation. Succession and seal. Power to acquire property. Power to dispose of property. Appointment of new trustees. Use of seal. Services. Saving. Definitions.

36 of 1939. Short title. Incorporation. Succession and seal. Power to acquire property. Power to dispose of property. Appointment of new trustees. Use of seal. Services. Saving. Definitions.

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