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The expression "The Constitution of the said Church. means the code of rules and regulations for management and conduct of the Kowloon Union Church adopted by the Members thereof at the date of this Ordinance or as the same may be altered from time to time in the prescribed manner.
Objects and Reasons.
The Kowloon Union Church is at present managed by a Committee of Management which is elected at the Annual Meeting of the Members of the Church. The Church has acquired a property registered in the Land Office as Kowloon Inland Lot No. 2174 and have constructed thereon a Church building and manse. The Crown Lease is at present granted to the Trustees of the Union Church in Hong Kong.
2. The Church also has certain endowment funds invested in local securities.
3. In order to secure perpetual succession and other advantages of incorporation, it is proposed that Trustees be appointed with the title of "Trustees of the Kowloon Union Church" and that such Trustees be incorporated and the Ordinance now proposed follows in its main lines other incorporation Ordinances which have been passed from time to time especially Ordinance No. 19 of 1931.
August, 1939.