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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