1964 Ed.]'
Kowloon City Baptist Church.
[CAP. 1093
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CHAPTER 1093,
KOWLOON CITY BAPTIST CHURCH.
To provide for the incorporation of the trustees of the Kowloon City Baptist Church.
[26th April, 1957.]
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Kowloon City Baptist Church Ordinance.
2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires- "church" means the Kowloon City Baptist Church.
3. The trustees for the time being of the Kowloon City Baptist Church shall be a body corporate, hereinafter called the corporation, and shall have the name "The Trustees of the Kowloon City Baptist Church”, and in that name shall have perpetual succession and shall and may sue and be sued in all courts in the Colony and shall and may have and use a common seal and may break, alter and make anew the said seal.
4. (1) 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 situate, and also to invest moneys upon deposit in any bank in the Colony or upon mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements or upon the mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities of any government, municipality, corporation, company or person, and also to purchase, acquire and possess vessels and other goods and chattels of what nature and kind soever.
(2) 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 vessels or other 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.
5. The trustees shall not sell any land (with or without buildings thereon) vested in the trustees unless the approval of a general meeting of members of the church to the sale has first been obtained:
Provided that in favour of a bona fide purchaser for value the production of a copy of the resolution duly certified under the hands of all the trustees for the time being in the Colony shall be conclusive evidence of such approval.
Originally 16 of 1957.
Short title.
Interpretation.
Description and incorporation.
Powers of corporation.
Restriction on sale of property.