CHURCH OF CHRIST IN CHINA, WANCHAI CHURCH, INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHURCH OF CHRIST IN CHINA, WANCHAI CHURCH, INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

LAWS OF HONG KONG

CHURCH OF CHRIST IN CHINA, WANCHAI CHURCH,

INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 1063





CHAPTER 1063.

CHURCH OF CHRIST IN CHINA, WANCHAI CHURCH,
INCORPORATION ORDINANCE.

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.
Section. Page.

1. Short title ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 2

2. Description and incorporation ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 2

3. Powers of corporation ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 2

4. Number. of trustees ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 2

5. Vacation of office by trustees ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 2

6. New trustees: their appointment and tenure of office ... ... ... ... 3

7. Execution of deeds ... ... ... .. ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 3

8. Committee of management ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 3

9. Appointment and removal of clergyman or pastor ... ... ... ... ... 3

10. Committee to operate and maintain a vernacular school ... ... ... 3

It. Committee to control temporal affairs ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 3

12. Power of committee to provide by regulation ... ... ... ... ... ... 4

13. Regulations not binding until approved ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 4

14. Proof of membership ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 4

15. S Saving ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... .. ... ... ... ... 5





CHAPTER 1063.

CHURCH OF CHRIST IN CHINA, WANCHAI CHURCH,
INCORPORATION.

To provide for the Incorporation of the Trustees of the Church of
Christ in China, Wanchai Church.

[25th January, 1952.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Church of Christ in China,
Wanchai Church, Incorporation Ordinance.

2. The trustees for the time being of the Church of Christ in China,
Wanchai Church, shall be a body-corporate, hereinafter called the
corporation, and shall have the name---TheTrustees of the Church of
Christ in China, Wanchai Church', 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
from time to time break, change, alter and make anew the said seal as to
the corporation may seem fit.

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 number of trustees shall not be less than two or more than
four.

5. 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
general meeting of members of the said Wanchai Church requiring the
resignation of such trustee or if his term of office shall come to an end.





6. (1) New trustees shall be proposed for election by committee at a
general meeting of the members of the said Wanchai Church and when
elected shall, subject to the provisions of section 5, hold office for the
term of five years from the date of such election. Trustees whose term
of office has expired shall b., eligible for re-election.

(2) Whenever any person or persons are appointed as trustees,
such person or persons shall. within three weeks after their respective
appointments or within such further time as may be allowed by the
Governor, furnish to the Governor satisfactory evidence of their
appointments.

(3) A notification in the Gazette under the hand of the Colonial
Secretary or Deputy Colonial Secretary that such evidence has been
furnished to the Governor by such persons shall be conclusive
evidence of such appointments.

7. All deeds, documents and other instruments requiring the seal of
the said corporation shall be sealed in the presence of two trustees, and
shall also be signed by the same two trustees so present. and such
signing shall be and be taken as sufficient evidence of the due sealing
thereof.

8. A committee of management, hereinafter caned the committee,
shall be elected from among and at a meeting of the said Wanchai
Church and those elected shall appoint a chairman, a vice-chairman. a
secretary and a treasurer from those elected. One third of the committee
shall retire annually but shall be eligible for re-election.

9. The committee may appoint a clergyman or pastor to perform
and carry on divine worship and the services usual in the other
churches of the Church of Christ in China and may also remove him and
appoint a successor and an matters connected with the religious
services of the said Wanchai Church shall be under the immediate
direction of the clergyman or pastor subject to the control of the
committee.

10. It shall be lawful for the committee to operate and maintain a
vernacular school for the purpose of education under the name of
'Wanchai Church School- and to collect tuition fees and to employ
teachers subject to the provisions of the Education Ordinance and any
enactments made thereunder.

11. The temporal affairs of the said Wanchai Church shall be
managed, directed and governed by the committee:

Provided however that the members of the committee shall not be
deemed personally liable for any payments of money in excess of that
provided or available for the purposes of the said Wanchai Church.





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

(a)the number, qualification and disqualification of members 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 substantive holder of that
post;

(d)the election and tenure of office of an auditor and the filling of
casual vacancies among the committee;

(e)the appointment, tenure of office. salary and duties of any
organist, verger or other officer or servant as the committee
may think necessary or expedient;

the keeping of a register of members of the said Wanchai
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 Wanchai Church;

(i)the rents and subscriptions (if any) to be paid for sittings in
the said Wanchai 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;

the keeping of accounts of moneys received and expended by
the committee;

(k)the erection and maintenance of monuments, tablets, or other
memorials in-the said Wanchai Church or in the precincts
thereof and the fees to be taken therefor;

(1)all other matters relating to the temporal affairs of the said
Wanchai Church or of the committee otherwise than where
specifically provided for by the Ordinance.

13. No regulations made by the committee under section 12 shall be
binding on the members of the said Wanchai Church until such
regulations have been passed by a majority of members present and
voting at a general meeting of members.

14. A certificate under the hand of the chairman of the committee
that any person therein named is a member of the said Wanchai Church
shall be accepted for all purposes as sufficient proof of the fact that
such person is a member of the said Wanchai Church.





15. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed to
affect the rights of Her Majesty the Queen. Her Heirs or Succes-
sors, 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 2 of 1952. Short title. Description and incorporation. Powers of corporation. Number of trustees. Vacation of office by trustees. New trustees: their appointment and tenure of office. Execution of deeds. Committee of management. Appointment and removal of clergyman or pastor. Committee to operate and maintain a vernacular school. (Cap. 279.) Committee to control temporal affairs. Power of committee to provide by regulation. Regulations not binding until approved. Proof of membership. Saving.

Originally 2 of 1952. Short title. Description and incorporation. Powers of corporation. Number of trustees. Vacation of office by trustees. New trustees: their appointment and tenure of office. Execution of deeds. Committee of management. Appointment and removal of clergyman or pastor. Committee to operate and maintain a vernacular school. (Cap. 279.) Committee to control temporal affairs. Power of committee to provide by regulation. Regulations not binding until approved. Proof of membership. Saving.

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