| To provide for the incorporation of the Kowloon Tong Church of the Chinese Christian and Missionary Alliance. [2 June 1950] (Originally 13 of 1950 (Cap 294 1950)) Cap 1031 s 1 Short title This Ordinance may be cited as the Kowloon Tong Church of the Chinese Christian and Missionary Alliance Incorporation Ordinance. Cap 1031 s 2 Description and incorporation Remarks: Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 32 of 1999 s. 3 The trustees for the time being of the Kowloon Tong Church of the Chinese Christian and Missionary Alliance shall be a body corporate, hereinafter called the corporation, and shall have the name "The Trustees of the Kowloon Tong Church of the Chinese Christian and Missionary Alliance", and in that name shall have perpetual succession and shall and may sue and be sued in all courts in Hong Kong and shall and may have and use a common seal and may break, change, alter and make anew the said seal. (Amended 32 of 1999 s. 3) Cap 1031 s 3 Powers of corporation (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. Cap 1031 s 4 Transfer of property 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. Cap 1031 s 5 Number of trustees The number of the trustees shall be not less than three nor more than five. Cap 1031 s 6 Vacation of office by trustees 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 said Kowloon Tong Church requiring the resignation of such trustee or if his term of office shall come to an end. Cap 1031 s 7 New trustees. Their appointment and tenure of office New trustees shall be proposed for election by the committee at a general meeting of the members of the said Kowloon Tong Church and when elected shall (subject to the provisions of section 6) hold office for the term of five years from the date of such election. Trustees whose term of office has expired shall be eligible for re-election. Cap 1031 s 8 Notification of changes of trustees Remarks: Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 32 of 1999 s. 3 (1) Any change in membership of the trustees shall within three weeks of such change be notified by the publication of a notice in the Gazette. (2) No such change shall be deemed to have been made until a 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 Chief Executive furnish to him satisfactory proof of the succession, election or appointment of any new trustee. (Amended 32 of 1999 s. 3) Cap 1031 s 9 Execution of deeds All deeds, documents and other instruments requiring the seal of the corporation shall be sealed in the presence of three or more of the trustees and shall also be signed by three of the trustees so present and such signing shall be and be taken as sufficient evidence of the due sealing thereof. Cap 1031 s 10 Election of committee of management and appointment of officers A committee of management, hereinafter called the committee, shall be elected from among and at a meeting of the members of the said Kowloon Tong Church and those elected shall appoint a chairman, a secretary and a treasurer from those elected. One third of the committee shall retire annually but shall be eligible for re-election. Cap 1031 s 11 Appointment and removal of clergyman or pastor The committee may appoint a clergyman or pastor to perform and carry on divine worship and the services usual in the Christian and Missionary Alliance Churches and may also remove him and appoint a successor and all matters connected with the religious services of the said Kowloon Tong Church shall be under the immediate direction of the clergyman or pastor subject to the control of the committee. |
