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power to dispose

of property;

use of seal,

Vesting of property in trustees: Saint John's Cathedral Church and precincts;

Saint Andrew's

Church, Kowloon;

CAP. 1014]

Church of England Trust.

[1970 Ed.

buildings, messuages or tenements, or upon the mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities of any government, municipality, corporation or company, and also to purchase, acquire and possess goods and chattels of what nature or kind soever, for the purpose of endowing, supporting, maintaining, carrying on or otherwise promoting the work of the Church of England in Hong Kong or elsewhere in the diocese whether such work be of a religious, educational or social nature or otherwise. (Amended, 33 of 1939, Supp. Schedule, G.N. 840/40)

(3) Subject to the provisions of section 6, the trustees shall further have power by deed or writing under their common seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, yield up, mortgage, demise, reconvey, reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of or deal with any lands, buildings, messuages, tenements, goods and chattels or other property which are for the time being vested in or belonging to the trustees, upon such terms as to the trustees may seem fit:

Provided that nothing in this section shall be construed so as to authorize any breach of trust on the part of the trustees.

(4) All deeds and other documents requiring the common seal of the trustees shall be sealed with such seal and shall be signed by two trustees. (Replaced, 61 of 1970, s. 4)

6. (1) Saint John's Cathedral Church and the precincts thereof together with all buildings, rights, easements and appurtenances thereunto belonging, and together with all the estate, right, title and interest of the church body as heretofore constituted shall vest in the trustees in fee simple for the sole and express purpose of a church and to the intent that divine worship and the services usual in the Church of England shall be therein performed and carried on in accordance with the rites and ceremonies of the said Church:

Provided that-

(a) if at any time the church ceases to be used as a church for divine worship and the services usual in the Church of England cease to be performed and carried on therein in accordance with the said rites and ceremonies, the church and the precincts thereof shall revert to and become the absolute property of the Crown unless the same be sold or otherwise disposed of with the consent in writing of the Governor; and (Amended, 33 of 1939, Supp. Schedule, G.N. 840/40)

(b) the use of any part of the said precincts for the purpose of schools, quarters for the members of the staff of Saint John's Cathedral Church and other buildings in connexion with such church shall be deemed to be use for the purpose of a church within the meaning of this subsection. (Added, 42 of 1955, s. 2)

(2) All that piece or parcel of ground known and registered in the Land Office as Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1153 and the