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such manner and at such time and place as to the committee may seem fit, a meeting of such persons as may appear to the committee to be interested in the matter, and to lay the facts before such interested persons as may attend such meeting, and to ascertain their views.
(2) If upon considering such views, if any, and all the circumstances of the case it appears to the committee that sufficient support for the temple is not likely to be forthcoming it shall be lawful for the committee to order the temple to be closed.
(3) Notice of such order shall be posted up at the temple and shall if possible be given to the person or persons by whom the temple is controlled or some of them.
(4) Upon the expiration of one month from the date upon which the notice is posted up at the temple and whether the notice has remained so posted throughout the said period or not, the temple shall be deemed to be an unregistered temple and if it is maintained thereafter it shall be deemed to be maintained contrary to the provisions of this Ordinance.
(5) Upon the posting up of such notice at the temple the Secretary for Chinese Affairs Incorporated may take possession of all the property of the temple and may sue for the recovery of any such property and may, with the consent of the Chinese Temples Committee, sell or otherwise dispose of such property.
(6) The proceeds of any such sale shall, subject to any lawful claims, be transferred to the General Chinese Charities Fund.
Chinese
13.-(1) The Chinese temples specified in the Schedule Exempted hereto, hereinafter referred to as exempted Chinese temples, temples. shall be exempt from the provisions of sections 3, 4, 7, 8, 10 Schedule.
and II.
(2) No person shall make or attempt to make any public collection or any public appeal or request for any exempted Chinese temple or for any object connected therewith, except within the precincts of that temple.
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939, Supp. Sched.
CHINESE TEMPLES.
No. 7 of 1928.
1745
such manner and at such time and place as to the committee may seem fit, a meeting of such persons as may appear to the committee to be interested in the matter, and to lay the facts before such interested persons as may attend such meeting, and to ascertain their views.
(2) If upon considering such views, if any, and all the circumstances of the case it appears to the committee that sufficient support for the temple is not likely to be forthcoming it shall be lawful for the committee to order the temple to be closed.
(3) Notice of such order shall be posted up at the temple and shall if possible be given to the person or persons by whom the temple is controlled or some of them.
(4) Upon the expiration of one month from the date upon which the notice is posted up at the temple and whether the notice has remained so posted throughout the said period or not, the temple shall be deemed to be an unregistered temple and if it is maintained thereafter it shall be deemed to be maintained contrary to the provisions of this Ordinance.
(5) Upon the posting up of such notice at the temple the Secretary for Chinese Affairs Incorporated may take possession of all the property of the temple and may sue for the recovery of any such property and may, with the consent of the Chinese Temples Committee, sell or otherwise dispose of such property.
(6) The proceeds of any such sale shall, subject to any lawful claims, be transferred to the General Chinese Charities Fund.
Chinese
13.-(1) The Chinese temples specified in the Schedule Exempted hereto, hereinafter referred to as exempted Chinese temples, temples. shall be exempt from the provisions of sections 3, 4, 7, 8, 10 Schedule.
and II.
(2) No person shall make or attempt to make any public collection or any public appeal or request for any exempted Chinese temple or for any object connected therewith, except within the precincts of that temple.
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939, Supp. Sched.
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