| To provide for the incorporation of The Methodist Church, Hong Kong. [23 December 1983] (Originally 74 of 1983) Cap 1133 s 1 Short title This Ordinance may be cited as The Methodist Church, Hong Kong, Incorporation Ordinance. Cap 1133 s 2 Interpretation In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires- "Conference" (总议会) means a Conference of the delegates of the members of The Methodist Church, Hong Kong, as defined in the constitution; "Conference Committee" (总议会委员会) means a sub-committee under the control of the Standing Committee set up by the Corporation in accordance with the constitution; "Constitution" (章程) means the constitution of The Methodist Church, Hong Kong, for the time being in force; "Corporation" (法团) means the body incorporated by section 3; "The Methodist Church, Hong Kong" (香港基督教循道卫理联合教会) means The Methodist Church, Hong Kong, referred to in section 3; "Standing Committee" (常务委员会) means the governing body of the Corporation set up by the Corporation in accordance with the constitution. Cap 1133 s 3 Description and Incorporation There is hereby established a body corporate having for its members the delegates of the members of The Methodist Church, Hong Kong, specified in section 6 and which shall have the name "THE METHODIST CHURCH, HONG KONG" and in that name shall have perpetual succession and shall and may sue and be sued in all courts and tribunals in Hong Kong and shall have and may use a common seal, and may from time to time, break, change, alter and make anew the said seal as the Corporation may deem fit. Cap 1133 s 4 Powers of the Corporation The Corporation shall have full power- (a) to establish, manage, administer and operate any church, school, clinic, hospital, welfare centre, or educational or charitable institution as the Corporation may deem fit; (b) to acquire, accept leases of, purchase, take or otherwise hold and enjoy any land, buildings, messuages or tenements of whatsoever nature or kind and wheresoever; (c) to acquire, by purchase or otherwise, goods and chattels of whatsoever nature or kind; (d) to invest moneys on deposit in any bank or finance company in Hong Kong or outside Hong Kong or in any government bonds or on mortgage of any land, buildings, messuages, or tenements in Hong Kong, or in or on debentures, debenture-stocks, funds, shares or securities of any corporation or company carrying on business in Hong Kong; (e) to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, yield up, mortgage, demise, let, reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of, any land, buildings, messuages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, debenture-stocks, stocks, funds, shares, securities, vessels, goods or chattels for the time being vested in the Corporation, upon such terms as the Corporation may deem fit; (f) to act as custodian trustee or manager of any property or fund for any charitable purpose; (g) to accept gifts, donations and endowments for all or any of the purposes of The Methodist Church, Hong Kong; (h) to subscribe to and to grant donations for any charities or educational purposes; (i) to develop either alone or jointly with other or others and turn to account any land acquired by the Corporation or in which it is interested and in particular by laying out and preparing the same for building purposes, constructing, altering, pulling down, decorating, maintaining, fitting up, and improving buildings, and by planting, paving, draining, farming, cultivating and letting on building lease or building agreement, and by advancing money to and entering into contracts and arrangements of all kinds with builders, developers, contractors, land investment companies, land mortgage companies, building estate companies, banks, financiers, owners, lessees, tenants and others, in such manner or on such terms and conditions as the Corporation may deem fit or expedient and to make applications and obtain orders under the Landlord and Tenant (Consolidation) Ordinance (Cap 7), and to agree and pay such compensation as the Tribunal within the meaning of that Ordinance may recommend or order; (Amended 32 of 2002 s. 40) (j) to borrow money upon such terms as the Corporation may deem fit, and to raise money by public or private subscription; and (k) generally to do such other things as may appear to be incidental or conducive to the aims and objects of The Methodist Church, Hong Kong. Cap 1133 s 5 Vesting of Property On the commencement of this Ordinance- (a) all those pieces or parcels of ground specified in the second column of Parts I,II and IV of the Schedule, together with all rights, easements and appurtenances thereto belonging, shall vest in the Corporation without any conveyance or assignment for the unexpired residue of the respective terms of years created by the Crown leases, conditions of sale, conditions of grant, conditions of exchange, conditions of regrant and new grant specified opposite thereto in the third column of Parts I,II and IV of the Schedule, subject to payment of the rent and performance of the covenants and conditions reserved by and contained in the said Crown leases, conditions of sale, conditions of grant, conditions of exchange, conditions of regrant and new grant and subject also to such mortgages, charges, leases, tenancies and other agreement (if any) and upon such trusts, conditions and stipulations, as may be subsisting in relation to such premises upon the commencement of this Ordinance; |
