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3. (1) (a) There shall be a body of trustees which, Constitution
subject to the other provisions of this Ordinance, trustees; shall consist of--
(i) The Bishop of Victoria, Hong Kong;
(ii) The Dean of Saint John's Cathedral;
(iii) The Vicar of Saint Andrew's Church, Kowloon;
(iv) The Vicar of Christ Church, Kowloon Tong, and their successors in office for the time being, together with two lay trustees representing Saint John's Cathedral, two lay trustees representing Saint Andrew's Church, Kowloon, and two lay trustees representing Christ Church, Kowloon Tong, and thereafter the persons for the time being duly elected and appointed in place of the above or any of them as their successors in accordance with regulations made under this Ordinance.
(b) In the case of every other church to which this Ordinance for the time being applies and whose incumbent has a separate cure of souls, the incumbent and two duly elected lay representatives of such church shall be members of the body of trustees.
(c) All lay trustees shall be actual communicants of the Church of England, of twenty-one years of age and upwards, of either sex, and of British nationality, and shall be elected at the annual church meetings as provided for in regulations made under this Ordinance.
(d) In the event of the absence on leave of any clerical trustee other than the Bishop it shall be lawful for the trustees in their discretion to appoint temporarily the clergyman in charge of the church concerned.
(2) The Bishop shall have power to give and revoke a commissary; dormant commission to any clergyman of the Church of England to be a trustee, and to act for the Bishop in accordance with the terms of the dormant commission, during any absence of the Bishop from the Colony and during any incapacity of the Bishop, and to be a trustee and to act in the stead of the Bishop in the case of voidance of the see. No such dormant commission shall take active effect on the ground of the incapacity of the Bishop or the voidance of the
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