Cap. 1083 - Hong Kong Christian Council Incorporation Ordinance

To provide for the incorporation of the members of the Hong Kong Christian Council. [16 September 1955](Format changes—E.R. 4 of 2022) 1. Short title This Ordinance may be cited as the Hong Kong Christian Council Incorporation Ordinance. 2. Interpretation In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires—constitution (章程) means the constitution of the Hong Kong Christian Council approved from time to time by its members for the time being. 3. Incorporation The members of the Hong Kong Christian Council shall be a body corporate, hereinafter called the corporation, and shall have the name “The Hong Kong Christian Council (香港基督教協進會)”, and in that name shall have perpetual succession and shall and may sue and be sued in all courts in Hong Kong 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 the corporation may deem fit.(Amended 23 of 1994 s. 2; 33 of 1999 s. 3) 4. Powers of corporation The corporation shall have full power—(a) to operate, manage and maintain such cemeteries as the corporation shall be permitted by law to operate, manage or maintain;(b) to acquire, accept leases of, purchase, take, or otherwise hold and enjoy any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements of what nature or kind soever and wheresoever situate;(c) to acquire, by purchase or otherwise, vessels, goods and chattels of what nature or kind soever;(d) to invest moneys on deposit in any bank in Hong Kong or in any government bonds or on mortgage of any kind, buildings, messuages or tenements in Hong Kong, or in or on debentures, debenture-stocks, stocks, funds, shares or securities of any corporation or company carrying on business in Hong Kong; (Amended 33 of 1999 s. 3)(e) to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, yield up, mortgage, demise, let, reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of, any land, or buildings, messuages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, debenture-stocks, funds, securities, vessel, goods and chattels for the time being vested in the corporation, upon such terms as the corporation may deem fit;(f) to erect any buildings, messuages or tenements and effect any improvement thereto;(g) to borrow money upon such terms as the corporation shall think fit, and to raise money by public or private subscription; and(h) generally to do such other things as may appear to be incidental or conducive to the aims and objects of the corporation as provided by its constitution, or the purposes aforesaid or any of them. 5. Members The corporation shall consist of such members as shall be provided by its constitution. 6. Existing constitution to become constitution of corporation The existing constitution of the unincorporated Hong Kong Christian Council shall be the constitution of the corporation, but the same may be changed or amended at any time and from time to time in accordance with its provisions for the time being in force. 7. Registration with Registrar of Companies (1) The corporation shall forward to the Registrar of Companies for registration the following—(a) notice of the address of the registered office of the corporation and any change thereto;(b) a copy of the constitution and any amendment thereto, certified as correct by the chairman of the corporation;(c) a list of the names and addresses of the members of the Executive Committee of the corporation, and any change therein, certified as correct by the chairman; and(d) the name and address of any person appointed under section 8 to sign deeds, documents and other instruments.(2) Notification in accordance with subsection (1) shall be made within 28 days of any amendment or change, as the case may be.(3) Any person may inspect any of the documents registered under this section.(4) A fee of $5 shall be payable for registering any document under this section.(5) A fee of $1 shall be payable for inspecting the documents filed with the Registrar of Companies under this Ordinance.(Amended E.R. 4 of 2022) 8. Sealing of deeds All deeds, documents and other instruments requiring the seal of the corporation shall be signed by the chairman and the secretary of the corporation or by such other person or persons as the corporation shall from time to time appoint and such signing shall be taken as sufficient evidence of the due sealing of such deeds, documents and other instruments. 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 33 of 1999 s. 3)