TSIMSHATSUI BAPTIST CHURCH INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

TSIMSHATSUI BAPTIST CHURCH INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

LAWS OF HONG KONG

TSIMSHATSUI BAPTIST CHURCH INCORPORATION

ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 1073





CHAPTER 1073.

TSIMSHATSUI BAPTIST CHURCH INCORPORATION.

To provide for the incorporation of the Trustees of the Tsimshatsui
Baptist Church.

[16th July, 1954.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Tsimshatsui Baptist Church
Incorporation Ordinance.

2. In this Ordinance. unless the context otherwise requires

'church' means the Tsimshatsui Baptist Church;

'financial committee' means the financial committee elected by the
members of the church;

&,general committee' means the general committee elected by the
members of the church.

3. The trustees for the time being of the Tsimshatsui Baptist
Church shall be a body corporate. hereinafter called the corporation
tion, and shall have the name 'The Trustees of the Tsimshatsui Baptist
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 break. alter and make anew the
said seal.

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, 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.

5. 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.





6. The number of the trustees shall be seven.

7. 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 church requiring the resignation of such
trustee or if his term of office shall come to an end.

8. (1) At the annual general meeting of members of the church held
in each year, six new trustees shall be elected by members of the church
as follows

(a)two deacons who have been proposed by the deacons of the
church;

(b)two members of the general committee who have been
proposed by the members of the general committee; and

(c)two members of the financial committee who have been
proposed by the members of the financial committee.

(2) If there shall only be one clergyman or pastor, then he shall be
ex officio a trustee but if there shall be more than one, then the members
of the church shall elect a presiding clergyman or pastor from among the
number of clergymen or pastors, and such presiding clergyman or pastor
shall be ex officio a trustee.

(3) Subject to the provisions of section 7, trustees when elected
shall hold office until the annual general meeting of members of the
church in the following year. Trustees whose terms of office have
expired shall be eligible for re-election.

9. If the office of a trustee be vacated other than through the
expiration of the term of office then a new trustee shall be elected by the
members of the church from among the class of members of the church
who proposed the trustee whose office is vacated and such new trustee
shall hold office until the next annual general meeting of the members of
the church.

10. (1) Any change in membership of the trustees shall within three
weeks of such change be notified by the publication of

ù notice in the Gazette.

(2) No such change shall be deemed to have been made until

ù 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.





11. The trustees when elected shall appoint a chairman, a
vice-chairman, a secretary and a treasurer from among their
number and all deeds. documents and other instruments requiring
the seal of the corporation shall be sealed in the presence of such
four persons and shall also be signed by them and such signing
shall be and be taken as sufficient evidence of the due sealing
thereof.

12. The members of the church may at a general meeting
of the members appoint a clergyman or clergymen or pastor or
pastors to perform and carry on divine worship and the services
usual in the Baptist Churches and may also appoint a preacher or
preachers and other officers or staff to assist the presiding clergy-
man or pastor to carry on all matters connected with the religious
services or other affairs of the church under the immediate direc-
tion of the presiding clergyman or pastor, and may remove all or
any of them.

13. All books, deeds, papers and other documents belonging
to the church shall be under the care and custody of some one or
more persons appointed by the trustees.

14. All regulations relating to the affairs of the church other-
wise than those specifically provided for by this Ordinance shall
be drawn up by a committee appointed by the members of the
church for such purpose and shall be submitted to the annual
general meeting for approval.

15. No regulations made by any committee under section 14
shall be binding on the members of the church until such regula-
tions have been passed by a majority of members present and
voting at an annual 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 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 29 of 1954. Short title. Interpretation. Description and incorporation. Powers of corporation. Transfer of property. Number of trustees. Vacation of office by trustee. New trustees; their appointment and tenure of office. Filling casual vacancies among trustees. Notification of changes of trustees. Execution of deeds. Appointment and removal of clergyman or pastor. Custody of documents. Power of committee to make regulations. Regulations not binding until approved. Saving.

Originally 29 of 1954. Short title. Interpretation. Description and incorporation. Powers of corporation. Transfer of property. Number of trustees. Vacation of office by trustee. New trustees; their appointment and tenure of office. Filling casual vacancies among trustees. Notification of changes of trustees. Execution of deeds. Appointment and removal of clergyman or pastor. Custody of documents. Power of committee to make regulations. Regulations not binding until approved. Saving.

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