CHINESE RHENISH CHURCH, HONG KONG SYNOD, INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHINESE RHENISH CHURCH, HONG KONG SYNOD, INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

LAWS OF HONG KONG

CHINESE RHENISH CHURCH, HONG KONG SYNOD,

INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 1060





CHAPTER 1060.

CHINESE RHENISH CHURCH, HONG KONG SYNOD,
INCORPORATION.

To provide for the incorporation of The Chinese Rhenish Church,
Hong Kong Synod.
[1st June, 1951.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Chinese Rhenish
Church, Hong Kong Synod, Incorporation Ordinance.

2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires---
'Chairman and Vice-Chairman' means respectively the Chairman
and Vice-Chairman of the Synod elected in accordance with
the constitution;
*'constitution' means the rules or regulations governing the Synod
for the time being in force together with any amendments
thereto made from time to time in accordance with such rules
or regulations;
'Synod Committee' means the members of the Synod Committee
duly elected in accordance with the constitution and including
the Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Synod and having
the power of management and control of the affairs of the
Synod in accordance with the constitution;
'The Chinese Rhenish Church. Hong Kong SynoX' or 'the Hong
Kong SynoT' or 'the SynoX' means the representatives,
pastors and preachers of such Chinese Rhenish Churches in
Hong Kong and the representatives of educational and chari-
table organizations established by the Synod as are or shall
be members of the Synod in accordance with the constitution.

3. (1) Whenever any person is appointed to the office of
Chairman and whenever any person is appointed to the office of
Vice-Chairman such persons shall, within three weeks after their
respective appointments or within such further time as may be
allowed by the Colonial Secretary, furnish to the Colonial Secretary
satisfactory evidence of their respective appointments.
(2) A notification in the Gazette under the hand of the
Colonial Secretary or Deputy Colonial Secretary that such evidence
has been furnished to the Colonial Secretary by such persons shall
be conclusive evidence of such appointments.

4. A certificate under the hand of the Chairman, or in his
absence from the Colony of the Vice-Chairman-
(a)that any person therein named is a member of the Synod;
or
(b)that any rules or regulations annexed to such certificate
are the constitution,





shall be accepted for all purposes as sufficient proof of the fact
that such person is a member of the Synod, or that the constitu-
tion was duly made and is in force.

5. (1) The Synod shall be a body corporate under the name
of 'The Chinese Rhenish Church, Hong Kong Synod', herein-
after referred to as the corporation.

(2) The corporation by the name aforesaid shall have per-
petual 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 as to
the corporation may seem fit.

(3) The corporation shall have the power to acquire, accept
leases of, purchase, take, hold and enjoy any lands. buildings,
messuages or tenements of what nature or kind soever and where-
soever situate in the Colony, and also to invest moneys upon
mortgages 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. p4rti-
tion, 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 vested in or belong to the corporation, upon such terms
as to the corporation may seem fit.

6. All deeds, documents and other instruments requiring the
seal of the corporation shall be sealed therewith in the presence of
the Chairman, or in his absence from the Colony, of the Vice-
Chairman, and shall also be signed by the Chairman, or by the
Vice-Chairman. The seal shall be kept in the custody of the
Chairman. or in his absence from the Colony, in the custody of
the Vice-Chairman.

7. All matters of internal management of the Synod, includ-
ing any amendment of the constitution. shall be settled and carried
out in accordance with the constitution.

& Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed to
affect the rights of Her Majesty the Queen. Her Heirs or Suc-
cessors. 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 19 of 1951. Short title. Interpretation. Appointment of Chairman and Vice-Chairman. Proof of membership and of constitution. Incorporation. Powers of corporation. Seal. Internal management of the Synod. Saving.

Originally 19 of 1951. Short title. Interpretation. Appointment of Chairman and Vice-Chairman. Proof of membership and of constitution. Incorporation. Powers of corporation. Seal. Internal management of the Synod. Saving.

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