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All Chinese temples to be in complete and separate buildings used for no other purpose.
All Chinese temples to be registered.
Chinese Temples.
regulation before exercising any other power conferred on the committee by this Ordinance.
4. (1) Subject to the provisions of subsections (2) and (3), no Chinese temple shall be established or maintained unless it is in a building which is a complete and separate building and which is erected and is used for the purpose of such temple and for no other purpose.
(2) Notwithstanding anything in subsection (1), it shall be lawful for the Chinese Temples Committee referred to in section 7 to exempt any Chinese temple from the provisions of subsection (1). Any such exemption may be withdrawn at any time by the Chinese Temples Committee upon such notice as to the said committee may seem proper.
(3) If the Chinese Temples Committee refuses to grant any exemption applied for under subsection (2), or withdraws any exemption granted under the said subsection, it shall be lawful for the applicant, within fourteen days from the date of such refusal or withdrawal as the case may be, to appeal by petition to the Governor in Council, and upon consideration of such petition and of any reply thereto submitted in writing by the Chinese Temples Committee it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to allow or to dismiss the appeal, and if he allows the appeal the exemption shall be granted, or the withdrawal of the exemption shall be cancelled, by the Chinese Temples Committee, with retrospective effect in each case to the date of the refusal or withdrawal as the case may be.
5. (1) No Chinese temple shall be established or maintained unless it is registered in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance.
(2) Registration shall be effected at the office of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs and the following particulars shall be supplied in order to effect registration—
(a) the name of the temple or intended temple;
(b) the address of the temple or intended temple, including the street or road and lot number;
(c) the gods worshipped or intended to be worshipped;
(d) the nature or intended nature of the control of the temple, that is to say, whether by a committee or by a family or by an individual, and the title of
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