EMMANUEL CHURCH INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

EMMANUEL CHURCH INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

LAWS OF HONG KONG

EMMANUEL CHURCH INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 1069





CHAPTER 1069.

EMMANUEL CHURCH INCORPORATION.

To provide for the incorporation of the Minister and Board of
Trustees of The Emmanuel Church.

[15th April, 1954.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Emmanuel Church
Incorporation Ordinance.

2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires

'board of trustees' means the board of trustees of the church for the
time being appointed in accordance with the constitution;

'church' means The Emmanuel Church;

'constitution' means the constitution for the time being of the church;

'minister' means the minister of The Emmanuel Church for the
time being appointed in accordance with the constitution.

3. (1) The minister and board of trustees of the church and their
successors in office shall be a body corporate. hereinafter referred to as
the corporation, and shall have the name of 'The Emmanuel 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.

(2) The minister shall be appointed in accordance with the
constitution and shall for the period of his appointment be a member of
the corporation upon notice of his appointment and where such
appointment is made to replace a retiring minister of the church. upon. in
addition, notice of such retirement, being filed with the Registrar of
Companies. Any such notice shaft be signed by the retiring minister
and by the board of trustees and shall be scaled with the common seal
of the corporation.

(3) The members of the board of trustees shall be appointed in
accordance with the constitution and shall for the periods of their
respective appointments be members of the corporation upon notice of
their appointment, and where such appointment is made to replace a
retiring member of the board of trustees-, upon, in addition, notice of
such retirement, being filed with the Registrar of Companies. Any such
notice shall be signed by the continuing and retiring trustee or trustees
and shall be scaled with the common seal of the corporation.

(4) The board of trustees shall be lawfully constituted
notwithstanding any vacancies occurring therein by death, absence,
resignation or incapacity of any member or any other cause: Provided
always that the board of trustees shall at no time consist of less than
two members.





4. (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 in the
Colony, and also to invest moneys upon mortgage of any lands,
buildings, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities of any
corporation or company carrying on business or having an office in the
Colony, and also to purchase and acquire all goods and chattels of what
nature or kind soever.

(2) The corporation shall further have power to grant. sell. convey,
assign, surrender, exchange, partition. yield up, mortgage, demise.
reassign. transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings,
messuages or tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks. securities.
goods and chattels vested in the corporation on such terms as the
corporation may seem fit.

5. All deeds, documents and other instruments requiring the seal of
the corporation shall be sealed with its common seal in the presence of
the minister and two members of the board of trustees and shall also be
signed by them and such signing shall be taken as sufficient prima facie
evidence of the due scaling of such deeds, documents and other
instruments.

6. 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 14 of 1954. Short title. Interpretation. Incorporation. Powers of corporation. Seal. Saving.

Originally 14 of 1954. Short title. Interpretation. Incorporation. Powers of corporation. Seal. Saving.

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