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No. 7 of 1928.
CHINESE TEMPLES.
[8.7 contd.] The Secretary for Chinese Affairs shall be the chairman of the Chinese Temples Committee. Five members shall form a quorum.
Ordinance No. 18 of 1934.
(2) In order to make such control effective it shall be lawful for the Chinese Temples Committee, without prejudice to any powers that the committee may possess, to require any person other than the Secretary for Chinese Affairs Incorporated, who may be in possession or control of, or in whom may be vested, any property held on behalf of or for the purposes of any Chinese temple, to transfer or assign any such property to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs Incorporated.
(3) Any such direction shall be signed by the chairman of the Chinese Temples Committee, and shall be served on the person required by the direction to transfer or assign the property in question.
(4) If the person so served fails without lawful excuse to transfer or assign the property forthwith he shall be deemed to have been guilty of a contravention of this Ordinance.
(5) If the property in question is immovable property and the person in whom it is vested fails without lawful excuse to comply with the direction of the Chinese Temples Committee to assign the property to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs Incorporated, or cannot be served, it shall be lawful for the Supreme Court, upon the hearing of an originating summons taken out by the chairman of the Chinese Temples Committee, to make an order vesting the said property in the Secretary for Chinese Affairs Incorporated. Any such vesting order shall have the same effect as a vesting order made under section 45 of the Trustee Ordinance, 1934.
(6) If the property in question consists of stock as defined in the Trustee Ordinance, 1934, or is a chose in action, and the person by whom or in whose name it is held or in whom right to sue and recover it is vested fails without lawful excuse to comply with the direction of the Chinese Temples Committee to transfer the property to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs Incorporated, or cannot be served, it shall be lawful for the Supreme Court, upon the hearing of an originating summons taken out by the chairman of the Chinese Temples Committee,
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