CO129-508-11 Copies of Ordinances and amendments with relating correspondence 17-12-1927 - 17-7-1928 — Page 33

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on evil days.

Section 12 gives the Chinese Temples

Committee power in such cases to close the temple and to

sell its assets and transfer the proceeds to the General

Charities Fund. Before closing any temple, however,

for this reason, the Committee will have to call a

meeting of the members of the community who would be

expected to be interested in the matter.

Such meeting

might result in revived support and the temple might then

be allowed to continue.

23.

Section 13 exempts from sections 3,4,7,8,10 and 11

of the Ordinance the Chinese temples specified in the

Schedule to the Ordinance.

These are all old established

temples which were founded by families or individuals and

not by the community or sections of the community, and

their administration is unobjectionable, though the

profits do not go to the community.

As these temples are

private property, and are run for private benefit, section

13 also provides that no public collection or appeal must

be made for them except within the precincts of the

particular temple for which the collection or appeal is

being made. Section 13 also provides that the Ordinance

as a whole shall not apply to the Man Mo Temple, because

the affairs of that temple are already regulated by the

Man Mo Temple Ordinance, Ordinance No.10 of 1908.

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25.

Section 14 gives the ordinary powers of search.

Section 15 provides that every person who

contravenes any of the provisions of the Ordinance or of

any regulation made thereunder shall be liable to a fine

not exceeding five hundred dollars.