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Sec 3

H.K University

Erdmanice

CAP. 318]

[s. 12 cont.]

Regulations

to be valid

tintil

disapproved.

Receipt of moneys, etc.

Union Church Incorporation.

Ordinance), and the conduct of business specially thereat ;

(h) the appropriation, allotment, arrangement and use

of the sittings in the said Church;

(i) the rents and subscriptions, if any, to be paid for the sittings in the said Church and the mode of collection thereof, the fees to be taken for baptisms, marriages and burials, or other services. and the collection and disposition of money, offer- ings, offertories and donations;

()the keeping of accounts of moneys received and

expended by the committee;

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

() all other matters relating to the affairs of the said Church or of the committee otherwise than where specially provided for by this Ordinance.

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13. All regulations made by the committee shall be valid unless they have been disapproved at an annual or special meeting of the seat-holders and subscribers.

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14. The said corporation shall permit the person appointed for that purpose by the committee to receive all moneys and subscriptions given or paid for the use of pews and sittings in the said Church or otherwise contributed or subscribed for the purposes aforesaid, and also the net rents arising from any lease of the premises or any part thereof and any other money in the nature of income, and after payment thereout of the expenses of repairing and insuring the premises and the interest of any debt secured on the premises or incurred in the erection, completion, repair, alteration, enlargement or improvement of the said premises, to pay such sum for the support of the minister and the assistant minister (if any) of the said Church as the com- mittee shall have determined, and to apply the remainder in payment of the incidental and other expenses attending the maintenance of divine worship, or to invest the same, and for the other purposes of these presents as the said committee shall direct: Provided nevertheless that moneys

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contributed or subscribed for any specified purpose shall be applied to such purpose.

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[CAP. 318

to sue.

15. The said corporation shall have power to sue for Power all rents, subscriptions, fees and moneys due or owing to the said Church.

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remove

etc.

16. It shall be lawful for the said corporation to order Power to the removal of any monument, tablet or other memorial in monuments, the said Church or in the precincts thereof which has become ruinous, dilapidated or unsightly, if the owner thereof cannot be found or refuses to repair the same properly and maintain it to the satisfaction of the said corporation : Provided always that three months' notice of such intended removal shall be given in writing to the owner if he can be found, and if he cannot be found a notice signifying such intended removal shall be posted for three months upon the notice board of the said Church.

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be held in

London

Society in

17. In the event of the said corporation failing to use, Property to occupy and enjoy the present Union Church and the build- trust for ings connected therewith, or any other premises which may Missionary be substituted therefor, for the purposes mentioned in section certain events. 5, for a period of more than two years at any one time, then the said corporation shall hold the said premises with the erections and buildings thereon, and all moneys, goods and chattels then belonging to the said corporation, in trust for the London Missionary Society incorporated under the London Missionary Society Incorporation Ordinance, (Cap. 296). absolutely.

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18. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed Saving. to affect the rights of His Majesty the King, His Heirs or 37 of 1950, Successors, or the rights of any body politic or corporate

or of any other persons except such as are mentioned in this Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under them.

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