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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.
L.N. 102/70.
ELECTORAL ROLL.
16. (1) A roll of electors shall be formed by every 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 remain 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, Kowloon, and the Vicar of Christ Church, Kowloon Tong, for Christ Church, Kowloon Tong, and in the case of other churches by the respective 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 convening 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 baptized and are members of the Church of England or a Church in communion therewith; 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
A 4
[Subsidiary]
CAP. 1014] Church of England Trust (Church
Councils) Regulations.
{1970 Ed.
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 chair- man to preside at such meeting.
Electoral roll.
L.N. 102/70.
ELECTORAL ROLL.
16. (1) A roll of electors shall be formed by every 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 remain 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, Kowloon, and the Vicar of Christ Church, Kowloon Tong, for Christ Church, Kowloon Tong, and in the case of other churches by the respective 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 convening 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 baptized and are members of the Church of England
or a Church in communion therewith; and
(b) do not belong to any religious body which is not in com-
munion with the Church of England; and
(c) are not entered upon the electoral roll of any other church
in the Diocese; and
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