CAP. 272]
Originally 36 of 1912. Fraser 36 of 1912.
37 of 1950.
Short title.
Incorporation.
Succession and seal.
Power to acquire property.
Power to sell property.
Register of members.
China Congregational Church.
CHAPTER 272.
CHINA CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.
To provide for the incorporation of the Church Body of the China Congregational Church in Hong Kong.
[1st November, 1912.]
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the China Congregational Church Ordinance.
2. (1) The members of the church body of the China Congregational Church in Hong Kong shall be a body corporate under the name of "The Church Body of the China Congregational Church in Hong Kong", hereinafter called the corporation.
(2) The corporation by the name aforesaid shall have perpetual succession, and shall and may sue and be sued in all courts, and shall and may have and use a common seal, and may from time to time break, change, alter and make anew the said seal as to the corporation may seem fit.
(3) 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 situated 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 corporation or company, and also to purchase, acquire and possess goods and chattels of what nature and kind soever.
(4) 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 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.
3. The corporation shall keep at its principal church or meeting place a register of the members of the China Congregational Church in Hong Kong, and shall enter in ...
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