CHINA CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH ORDINANCE
Title
CHINA CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH ORDINANCE
Description
LAWS OF HONG KONG
CHINA CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH ORDINANCE
CHAPTER 1009
CHAPTER 1009.
CHINA CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.
To provide for the incorporation of the Church Body of the China
Congregational Church in Hong Kong.
[1st November. 1912.]
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the China Congregational
Church Ordinance.
(Amended, 5 of 1924, s. 6)
2. (1) The members of the church body of the China Congregational
Church in Hong Kong shall be a body corporate under the name of 'The
Church Body of the China Congregational Church in Hong Kong',
hereinafter called the corporation. (Amended, 43 of 1912, Supp.
Schedule, G.N. 246/13)
(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 from time to time break.
change, alter and make anew the said seal as to the corporation may
seem fit. (Amended, 43 1912, Supp. Schedule, G.N. 246/13)
(3) 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 situate 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 for the time
being vested in or belonging to the corporation, upon such terms as to
the corporation may seem fit.
3. The corporation shall keep at its principal church or
meeting place a register of the members of the China Congrega-
tional Church in Hong Kong. and shall enter in such register the
names of all such persons as are in the opinion of the corporation
proper persons to be admitted as members of the said church.
Such book is hereinafter referred to as the register of members,
and the persons whose names appear therein as members of the
church.
4. Upon the death or resignation or removal from office of any
member of the church body aforesaid, a successor to the person so
dying. retiring or being removed shall be appointed by a majority of the
members of the church present at a meeting to be convened for the
purpose by the corporation. The names of every person so elected shall
be entered in the register of members with the date of election and
particulars of the office to which such person is elected, and every such
entry shall be signed by at least four members of the church body.
(Amended, 43 of 1912, Supp. Schedule, G.N. 246/13)
5. The services of the church shall be regulated and conducted by
the pastor of the church for the time being in accordance with the
principles of the Christian religion based upon the Old and New
Testaments, and in accordance as far as possible with the practice of the
Congregational Churches now in existence in Europe and America.
6. Subject to the provisions of section 5, the corporation may make
regulations for the services of the church and the management of its
property and affairs generally. All such regulations shall be laid before a
meeting of the members convened for the purpose and if approved by a
majority of the members present at such meeting shall be binding on the
corporation and upon all members of the church. A copy of any such
regulations sealed with the common seal of the corporation and
countersigned- by any four members of the church body shall be
accepted as evidence of such regulations having been regularly made
and confirmed.
(Amended, 43 of 1912, Supp. Schedule, G.N. 246/13)
7. The regulations may provide for the removal from office or from
membership of the church of any member of the church body or the
church by the vote of at least two-thirds of the members of the church.
8. Every meeting held under this Ordinance may be convened by
posting a notice of the time and place for holding such meeting. and the
nature of the business to be discussed. upon the door of the. principal
church or other meeting place of the corporation in Hong Kong on the
two Sundays next preceding the date of the meeting.
9. All deeds. documents and other instruments requiring the seal of
the corporation shall be scaled with the common seal of the corporation
and signed by at least four of the members of the church body for the
time being.
10. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed to affect the
rights of Her Majesty the Queen. Her 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.
(Replaced, 37 of 1950, Schedule)
Originally 36 of 1912. (Cap. 272, 1950.) 43 of 1912. 37 of 1950. Short title. Incorporation; succession and seal; power to acquire property; power to sell property. Register of members. Filling vacancies in church body. Conduct of services, etc. Power to make regulations. Removal of members. Convening meetings. Use of seal. Saving.
Abstract
Originally 36 of 1912. (Cap. 272, 1950.) 43 of 1912. 37 of 1950. Short title. Incorporation; succession and seal; power to acquire property; power to sell property. Register of members. Filling vacancies in church body. Conduct of services, etc. Power to make regulations. Removal of members. Convening meetings. Use of seal. Saving.
Identifier
https://oelawhk.lib.hku.hk/items/show/3475
Edition
1964
Volume
v26
Subsequent Cap No.
1009
Number of Pages
3
Files
Collection
Historical Laws of Hong Kong Online
Citation
“CHINA CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH ORDINANCE,” Historical Laws of Hong Kong Online, accessed September 30, 2024, https://oelawhk.lib.hku.hk/items/show/3475.