KOWLOON UNION CHURCH INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

KOWLOON UNION CHURCH INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

LAWS OF HONG KONG

KOWLOON UNION CHURCH INCORPORATION

ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 1032





CHAPTER 1032.

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 Union Church
Incorporation Ordinance.

2. The trustees for the time being of the Kowloon Union Church
shall be a body corporate under the name of the Trustees 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, buildings. messuages or
tenements of whatever nature or kind soever and wheresoever situate
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, corporation, company or
person and also to purchase. 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 constitution 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. AR deeds and other instruments requiring the seal of the
corporation shall be sealed with the common seal of the corporation and
signed by at least two of the trustees.

8. The services at the Kowloon Union Church shall be regulated
and conducted in accordance with the constitution 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.

9. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed to affect the
right 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.

10. The expression 'Kowloon Union Church' shall. unless the
context otherwise requires, 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 management 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.
Originally 36 of 1939. (Cap. 295, 1950.) 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.

Originally 36 of 1939. (Cap. 295, 1950.) 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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