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Committee

to operate and

maintain a vernacular school.

(26 of

1013).

Committee to control temporal affairs.

Power of committee to make regulations.

11. It shall be lawful for the committee to operate and maintain a vernacular school for the purpose of education under the name of "Wanchai Church School" and to collect tuition fees and to employ teachers subject to the provisions of the Education Ordinance, 1913, and any enactments made thereunder.

12. The temporal affairs of the said Wanchaj Church shail Provided be managed, directed and governed by the committee : however that the members of the committee shall not be deemed personally liable for any payments of money in excess of that provided or available for the purposes of the said Wanchai Church.

13. It shall be lawful for the committer to make regulations relating to the following matters—

(a) the number, qualification and disqualification of members

of the committee;

(b) the holding of meetings of the committee and the conduct

of business thereat;

(c) the temporary appointment of a clergyman or pastor during the absence from any cause of the substantive holder of that post;

(d) the election and tenure of office of an auditor and the filling up of casual vacancies among the committee;

(e) the appointment, tenure of office, salary and duties of any organist, verger or other officer or servant as the committee may think necessary or expedient ; the keeping of a register of members of the said Wanchai Church and of baptisms, marriages and burials;

(g) the holding of meetings of members, the right of voting and the taking and recording of the votes at such meetings and the conduct of business thereat;

(h) the appropriation, allotment, arrangement and use of

the sittings in the said Wanchai Church;

(0) the rents and subscriptions (if any) to be paid for sitting's in the said Wanchai Church and the mode of collection thereal, the fees to be taken for baptisms, marriages and burials or other services and the collection and disposition of money, offerings, offertories and donations; ()the keeping of accounts of monies received and expended

by the committee;

(k) the erection and maintenance of monuments, tablets, or other memorials in the said Wanchai Church or in the precincts thereof and the fees to be taken therefor; and

(D) all other matters relating to the temporal affairs of the said Wanchai Church or of the committee otherwise than where specifically provided for by the Ordinance. 14. No regulations made by the committee under the last Regulations preceding section shall be binding on the members of the said not binding Wanchai Church until such regulations have been passed by a approved. majority of members present and voting at a general meeting of members.

until

15. A certificate under the band of the chairman of the Proof of committee that any person therein named is a member of the member- said Wanchai Church shall be accepted for all purposes as

ship. sufficient proof of the fact that such person is a member of the said Wanchai Church.

of the

16. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed to Saving of affect the rights of His Majesty the King, His Heirs or Successors, rights or the rights of any body politic or corporate or of any other Crown. persons except such as are mentioned in this Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under them.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 23rd day of January, 1952.

Deputy Clerk of Councils.