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To provide for the incorporation of the Hop Yat Church of The Church of Christ in China. [22 September 1967] (Originally 54 of 1967) Cap 1027 s 1 Short title This Ordinance may be cited as the Hop Yat Church of The Church of Christ in China Incorporation Ordinance. Cap 1027 s 2 Interpretation In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires- "constitution" (章程) means the constitution of the Hop Yat Church approved from time to time by its members in accordance with the constitution for the time being in force; "Corporation" (法团) means the body incorporated by section 3; "Council of a Unit Church" (单位堂堂会) means the Council for the time being of a Unit Church of the Corporation; "Hop Yat Church" (合一堂) means the Hop Yat Church of The Church of Christ in China taken as a whole which shall include all its churches schools and other establishments and their respective members for the time being; "ministers" (牧师) and "preachers" (宣教师) respectively mean the ministers and preachers for the time being employed by the Hop Yat Church; "Properties Management Committee" (管业委员会) means the Properties Management Committee for the time being of the Corporation; "repealed Ordinance" (已废除的条例) means the Hop Yat Tong Church of Christ Hong Kong Incorporation Ordinance (Cap 1027 1964 Ed.); "Unit Church" (单位堂) means a church establishment of the Hop Yat Church. Cap 1027 s 3 Incorporation Remarks: Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 33 of 1999 s. 3 The Council of Representatives for the time being of the Hop Yat Church of The Church of Christ in China shall be a body corporate, hereinafter called "the Corporation", and shall have the name "The Council of Representatives of Hop Yat Church of the Church of Christ in China" and in that name shall have perpetual succession and may sue and be sued in all courts and tribunals in Hong Kong and shall have and may 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 L.N. 235 of 1996; 33 of 1999 s. 3) Cap 1027 s 4 Power of Corporation The Corporation shall have full power- (a) to manage, administer and operate the Hong Kong Hop Yat Church, the Kowloon Hop Yat Church, the Kowloon Hop Yat Church School, the Hop Yat Church Kindergarten and the Hop Yat Church Kai Chi School; (b) to establish, manage, administer and operate any clinic or clinics, hospital or hospitals, church or churches, school or schools or educational or charitable institution or institutions as the Corporation shall think fit; (c) 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; (Amended 74 of 1974 s. 3) (d) to acquire, by purchase or otherwise, goods and chattels of what nature or kind soever; (e) to invest moneys on deposit in any bank in Hong Kong or in any government bonds or on mortgage of any land, 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) (f) to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, yield up, mortgage, demise, let, reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of, any land, buildings, messuages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, debenture-stocks, stocks, funds, shares, securities, vessels, goods or chattels for the time being vested in the Corporation, upon such terms as the Corporation may deem fit; (g) to act as custodian trustee or manager of any property or fund for any charitable purpose; (h) to accept gifts, donations and endowments for all or any of the purposes of the Corporation; (i) to subscribe to and to grant donations for any charities or educational purposes; (j) to develop either alone or jointly with other or others and turn to account any land acquired by the Corporation or in which it is interested, and in particular by laying out and preparing the same for building purposes, constructing, altering, pulling down, decorating, maintaining, fitting up, and improving buildings, and by planting, paving, draining, farming, cultivating and letting on building lease or building agreement, and by advancing money to and entering into contracts and arrangements of all kinds with builders, developers, contractors, land investment companies, land mortgage companies, building estate companies, banks, financiers, owners, lessees, tenants and others, in such manner or on such terms and conditions as the Corporation shall deem fit or expedient and to make applications and obtain orders under the Landlord and Tenant (Consolidation) Ordinance (Cap 7) and to agree and pay such compensation as the Tribunal within the meaning of that Ordinance may recommend or order; (Amended 32 of 2002 s. 40) (k) to borrow money upon such terms as the Corporation shall think fit, and to raise money by public or private subscription; and |