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by the Governor.
(a)
The Chairman for the time being of the Board
of Direction of the Tung Wah Hospital.
(e)
The senior member for the time being of the
Committee of the Po Leung Kuk.
(f)
The Chairman for the time being of the
Kwong Wa Hospital Committee.
The Secretary for Chinese Affairs.
(g)
The Secretary for Chinese Affairs will be the chairman of the
Chinese Temples Committee. The section contains various
technical provisions for enabling the Chinese Temples Committee to take possession of the temple properties if it should be necessary to do so for the purpose of making their
control effectual.
17.
The Chinese Temples Committee will not be a corporate body and accordingly it will not be able itself to hold
property. Section 7 therefore provides that any temple property which it is found necessary for the Committee to take possession of may be transferred, in various ways, to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs Incorporated.
This is the
title of a new corporation sole which has recently been created by Ordinance No. 3 of 1928. The person who will be the corporation sole will be the person for the time being discharging the duties of Secretary for Chinese Affairs.
18.
Section 8 provides that the revenues of all Chinese
temples, except the exempted temples, shall be applied in the
first instance to the due observance of the customary
ceremonies and the maintenance of the temple buildings and temple properties, and that any surplus may be transferred to the General Chinese Charities Fund referred to in section 9 of
the Ordinance. The section also provides that it shall be
within the discretion of the Chinese Temples Committee to
decide what are the customary ceremonies of any particular