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13. A Church Council may, if so authorised by Erection of the Trustees in the letter of delegation, and in monuments. accordance with any regulations laid down by the Bishop, permit the erection or order the removal of any monument, tablet or other memorial in the church or in the precincts thereof, but no such monument, tablet or other memorial shall be erected or removed without the previous written consent of the Bishop.

furniture.

14. A Church Council may, if so authorised by Alterations the Trustees in the letter of delegation, make al- in church or terations in the church or its furniture, and may add to or renew ornaments to or in the church, but no such alteration, addition or renewal shall be made without the previous written consent of the Bishop.

15.-(1) If any difficulty arises with respect to the Powers of conduct of any Church Council for which provision is the Bishop. not made in the Church of England Trust Ordinance, 1929, or in the regulations, or in the event of a Church Council and an incumbent being unable to agree as to any matter in which their joint action is required, the Bishop may give such directions as may appear to him to be necessary.

(2) On representation being made to the Bishop by a majority of the lay members of a Church Council or by one-tenth of the electors on the electoral roll, and if such representation is deemed by the Bishop to show sufficient cause for the same, the Bishop shall convene a special meeting of the Church Council or church meeting, and shall either take the chair himself or appoint a chairman to preside at such meeting.

Electoral Roll.

Electoral

16.—(1) A roll of electors shall be formed by every roll. Church Council on which persons claiming to be qualified electors in the church concerned shall if their claim is allowed be entered and they shall re- main on the roll as long as their title to be qualified electors in the church concerned continues.

(2) The initial rolls shall be formed by the Dean for the Cathedral and the Vicar of Saint Andrew's Church, Kowloon for Saint Andrew's Church, Kow- loon and in the case of other churches by the respec- tive incumbents.

(3) Each roll shall be kept and revised by the Church Council concerned when it is constituted. It shall be annually revised not less than twenty-eight days before the annual church meeting. Notice of such revision shall be affixed at the place or places hereinafter prescribed with respect to notice conven- ing the said annual church meeting fourteen days at least before such revision takes place.

(4) The roll shall be published by being affixed at or near the principal door of the church concerned in such manner as the Church Council (or, in the case of an initial roll, as the incumbent) shall appoint and except in the case of the initial roll, shall be open for the enrolment of new voters continuously up to fourteen days before the annual church meeting.

(5) Qualified electors are persons of either sex of eighteen years and upwards who:-

(a) are baptised and are members of the Church of England or a Church in communion there- with and

(b) do not belong to any religious body which is not in communion with the Church of

England and

(c) are not entered upon the electoral roll of any

other church in the Diocese and

(d) have signed the declaration set forth here-

under.

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