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Filling vacancies in church body.
Conduct of services, etc.
Power to make regulations.
Removal of members.
Convening meetings.
Use of seal.
Saving.
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China Congregational Church.
(1964 Ed.
4. Upon the death or resignation or removal from office of any member of the church body aforesaid, a successor to the person so dying, retiring or being removed shall be appointed by a majority of the members of the church present at a meeting to be convened for the purpose by the corporation. The names of every person so elected shall be entered in the register of members with the date of election and particulars of the office to which such person is elected, and every such entry shall be signed by at least four members of the church body.
(Amended, 43 of 1912, Supp. Schedule, G.N. 246/13)
5. The services of the church shall be regulated and conducted by the pastor of the church for the time being in accordance with the principles of the Christian religion based upon the Old and New Testaments, and in accordance as far as possible with the practice of the Congregational Churches now in existence in Europe and America.
6. Subject to the provisions of section 5, the corporation may make regulations for the services of the church and the management of its property and affairs generally. All such regulations shall be laid before a meeting of the members convened for the purpose and if approved by a majority of the members present at such meeting shall be binding on the corporation and upon all members of the church. A copy of any such regulations sealed with the common seal of the corporation and countersigned by any four members of the church body shall be accepted as evidence of such regulations having been regularly made and confirmed.
(Amended, 43 of 1912, Supp. Schedule, G.N. 246/13)
7. The regulations may provide for the removal from office or from membership of the church of any member of the church body or the church by the vote of at least two-thirds of the members of the church.
8. Every meeting held under this Ordinance may be convened by posting a notice of the time and place for holding such meeting, and the nature of the business to be discussed, upon the door of the principal church or other meeting place of the corporation in Hong Kong on the two Sundays next preceding the date of the meeting.
9. All deeds, documents and other instruments requiring the seal of the corporation shall be sealed with the common seal of the corporation and signed by at least four of the members of the church body for the time being.
10. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed to affect the rights of Her Majesty the Queen, Her Heirs or Successors, or the rights of any body politic or corporate or of any other persons except such as are mentioned in this Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under them.
(Replaced, 37 of 1950, Schedule)