Cap 1083 - HONG KONG CHRISTIAN COUNCIL INCORPORATION ORDINANCE 1
Chapter: 1083 HONG KONG CHRISTIAN COUNCIL
INCORPORATION ORDINANCE
Gazette Number Version Date
Long title 30/06/1997
To provide for the incorporation of the members of the Hong Kong Christian Council.
[16 September 1955]
(Originally 39 of 1955)
Section: 1 Short title 30/06/1997
This Ordinance may be cited as the Hong Kong Christian Council Incorporation Ordinance.
Section: 2 Interpretation 30/06/1997
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.
Section: 3 Incorporation 33 of 1999 01/07/1997
Remarks:
Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 33 of 1999 s. 3
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)
Section: 4 Powers of corporation 33 of 1999 01/07/1997
Remarks:
Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 33 of 1999 s. 3
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
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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.
Section: 5 Members 30/06/1997
The corporation shall consist of such members as shall be provided by its constitution.
Section: 6 Existing constitution to become constitution of corporation 30/06/1997
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.
Section: 7 Registration with Registrar of Companies 30/06/1997
(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 twenty-eight 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 five dollars shall be payable for registering any document under this section.
(5) A fee of one dollar shall be payable for inspecting the documents filed with the Registrar of Companies
under this Ordinance.
Section: 8 Sealing of deeds 30/06/1997
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.
Section: 9 Saving 33 of 1999 01/07/1997
Remarks:
Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 33 of 1999 s. 3
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)