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

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

LAWS OF HONG KONG

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

CHAPTER 1031





CHAPTER 1031.

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

To provide for the incorporation of the Kowloon Tong Church of the
Chinese Christian and Missionary 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 Christian and Missionary Alliance shall be a body
corporate, hereinafter called the corporation, and shall have the name
'The Trustees of the 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 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 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 transferred 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 section 6) hold office for
the term of five years from the date of such, election. Trust~ 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 deemed 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 any 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 requiring the seal of
the corporation shall be sealed in the presence of three or more of the.
trust~ 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 caned the committee.
shall be elected from among and at a meeting of the members of the said
Kowloon Tong Church and those elected shall appoint a chairman, a
secretary and a treasurer from those elected. One third of the committee
shall retire 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 m the Christian and
Missionary Alliance Churches and may also remove him and appoint a
successor and all matters connected with the





religious services of the said Kowloon Tong Church shall be under the
immediate direction 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. AR books, deeds, papers and other documents belonging to
the said Kowloon Tong Church shall be under the care and custody of
the chairman of the committee.

14. The committee may by regulation provide for the following
matters

(a) the number, qualification and disqualification of members 1 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;

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 offerings, offertories and donations;

0)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

all other matters relating to the affairs of the said Kowloon
Tong Church or of the committee otherwise than where
specifically provided for by this Ordinance.





15. No regulations made by the committee under section 14 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 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.
Originally 13 of 1950. (Cap. 294, 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 document. Power of committee to make regulations. Regulations not binding until approved. Saving.

Originally 13 of 1950. (Cap. 294, 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 document. Power of committee to make regulations. Regulations not binding until approved. Saving.

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