Cap. 1032 - Kowloon Union Church Incorporation Ordinance

To provide for the incorporation of the Kowloon Union Church. [15 September 1939](Format changes—E.R. 2 of 2022) 1. Short title This Ordinance may be cited as the Kowloon Union Church Incorporation Ordinance. 2. Incorporation The trustees for the time being of the Kowloon Union Church shall be a body corporate under the name of the “Trustees of the Kowloon Union Church”, hereinafter referred to as the corporation. 3. Succession and seal The corporation by the name aforesaid shall have perpetual succession and shall and may sue and be sued in all courts and shall and may have and use a common seal and may from time to time break, change, alter and make anew the said seal as to the corporation may seem fit. 4. Power to acquire property The corporation shall have power to acquire, accept leases of, purchase, take, hold and enjoy any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements of whatever nature or kind soever and wheresoever situate also any endowments of the Kowloon Union Church and the investments and securities representing the same, and also to invest moneys upon mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements or upon mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities of any government, municipality, corporation, company or person and also to purchase, acquire and possess goods and chattels of whatever nature and kind soever. 5. Power to dispose of property The corporation shall further have power by deed under its seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, lease, surrender, exchange, partition, yield up, mortgage, demise, reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings, messuages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities, goods and chattels which are for the time being vested in or belonging to the corporation upon such terms as to the corporation may seem fit. 6. Appointment of new trustees (1) When any persons are appointed trustees of the Kowloon Union Church in accordance with the constitution of the said Church such persons shall within three weeks after appointment or within such further time as may be allowed by the Chief Executive, furnish the Chief Executive with satisfactory evidence of their appointment.(2) A notification in the Gazette under the hand of the Chief Secretary for Administration that such evidence has been furnished to the Chief Executive by any such person shall be conclusive evidence of such appointment. (Amended L.N. 226 of 1976; L.N. 242 of 1994; L.N. 362 of 1997)(Amended 32 of 1999 s. 3) 7. Use of seal All deeds and other instruments requiring the seal of the corporation shall be sealed with the common seal of the corporation and signed by at least two of the trustees. 8. Services The services at the Kowloon Union Church shall be regulated and conducted in accordance with the constitution of the said Church and in such manner as to provide that fellowship in public worship and in spiritual communion and service which is the privilege and usance of all Christians and to spread the knowledge of the purpose of God in Jesus Christ and to unite in fellowship Christians of various denominations and of different countries in the worship of God in accordance with the principles and usages of Protestant Evangelical Christians. 9. Saving Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed to affect the rights of the Central Authorities or the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region under the Basic Law and other laws, 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.(Amended 32 of 1999 s. 3) 10. Definitions The expression Kowloon Union Church (九龍佑寧堂) shall, unless the context otherwise requires, refer not only to the Church buildings from time to time used as the Kowloon Union Church but also to the members of the said Church duly enrolled in accordance with the constitution of the said Church. The expression the constitution of the said Church (上述佑寧堂的章程) means the code of rules and regulations for management and conduct of the Kowloon Union Church adopted by the members thereof at the date of this Ordinance or as the same may be altered from time to time in the prescribed manner.