### Kadoorie Agricultural Aid Loan Fund Ordinance 《嘉道理農業輔助貸款基金條例》

1. Short title
This Ordinance may be cited as the Kadoorie Agricultural Aid Loan Fund Ordinance.

2. Establishment of the Fund
There is hereby established a trust fund to be known as the Kadoorie Agricultural Aid Loan Fund, hereinafter referred to as the Fund

3. Maintenance of Fund
The Fund shall consist of—
(a) moneys donated jointly to the Fund by Horace Kadoorie and Lawrence Kadoorie, and by the Government;
(b) any donations to the Fund which may from time to time be made either by Horace Kadoorie or by Lawrence Kadoorie, or by the Government;
(c) any donations to the Fund which may be made during the joint lives of Horace Kadoorie and Lawrence Kadoorie with their consent and after the death of either of them and during the life of the survivor with the consent of the survivor;
(d) any donations made to the Fund after the death of the survivor of Horace Kadoorie and Lawrence Kadoorie,
and together with any investment from time to time representing the said moneys and together also with the interest and income derived from any such investment.

4. The trustee
(1) The Fund is hereby vested in the Director of Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation, hereinafter referred to as the trustee

5. Administration of the Fund
(1) The Fund shall be administered by a committee, hereinafter referred to as the committee

6. The trusts
(1) The trustee shall apply the Fund in such manner as the committee may direct for the purpose of encouraging or improving agriculture in Hong Kong by the issue of loans to farmers, groups of farmers or persons intending to become farmers, at such rates of interest, if any, and subject to such terms or conditions as the committee may direct, or by such other means as may from time to time be approved by the Chief Executive. (Amended 18 of 1996 s. 3; 61 of 2000 s. 3)
(2) For the purpose of subsection (1), the expression agriculture (農業) includes all forms of aquaculture. (Replaced 18 of 1996 s. 4)
(Replaced 40 of 1960 s. 4)

7. Investments
The trustee may invest the moneys of the Fund in the name of the trustee in such investments of any kind, including shares in local companies, whether such investments are permitted for the investment of trust funds or not, as the committee may direct; and, in like manner, such investments may at any time be varied.

### Kadoorie Agricultural Aid Loan Fund Ordinance 《嘉道理農業輔助貸款基金條例》

8. Borrowing powers
The trustee may borrow such sums of money at such rates of interest and subject to such terms or conditions as the committee may from time to time direct for the furtherance of any of the purposes specified in section 6, and the capital and assets of the Fund shall be chargeable as security for the repayment thereof.
(Added 40 of 1960 s. 5)

9. Regulations
The committee may by regulation provide for its procedure in the transaction of business and the maintenance of good order at its meetings and generally for all matters relating to the administration and management of the Fund and the discharge of the duties of the committee:
Provided always that a copy of such regulations shall be furnished to the Chief Secretary for Administration and that they shall be subject to disallowance or amendment at any time by the Chief Executive.(Amended L.N. 226 of 1976; L.N. 242 of 1994; L.N. 362 of 1997; 61 of 2000 s. 3)

10. Power to write off irrecoverable moneys
The trustee shall have power subject to the direction of the committee to write off from the moneys of the Fund any sums which the committee deem to be irrecoverable.

11. Determination of questions at meetings of the committee
All questions which may arise at any meeting of the committee shall be decided by a majority of votes of the members present and, in case of an equality of votes, the chairman shall have a casting vote in addition to his original vote:
Provided that, in any case in which the committee is equally divided in opinion without the casting vote of the chairman, any three members of the committee may demand that the point be referred to the Chief Executive for his decision, which shall in every such case be final.(Amended 61 of 2000 s. 3)

### Kadoorie Agricultural Aid Loan Fund Ordinance 《嘉道理農業輔助貸款基金條例》

12. Accounts
(1) The trustee shall cause proper accounts to be kept of all transactions of the Fund and shall cause to be prepared for every period of twelve months ending on the 31st day of March in each year, a statement of the accounts of the Fund, which statement shall include an income and expenditure account and balance sheet and shall be signed by the trustee.
(2) The accounts of the Fund and the signed statement of the accounts shall be audited by an auditor appointed by the Chief Executive and the auditor shall certify the statement subject to such report, if any, as he may think fit.
(3) A copy of the signed and audited statement of the accounts together with the auditor’s report, if any, and a report by the committee on the administration of the Fund during the period covered by the audited accounts shall be laid on the table of the Legislative Council not later than the 30th day of September next following the end of such period or so soon thereafter as the Chief Executive, in his absolute discretion, may allow.
(Replaced 40 of 1960 s. 6. Amended 61 of 2000 s. 3)

13. Cost of administration
The cost of administering the Fund shall be defrayed out of the general revenue of Hong Kong.
(Amended 18 of 1996 s. 3)

### Hong Kong Baptist Church Incorporation Ordinance 《香港浸信教會法團條例》

1. Short title
This Ordinance may be cited as the Hong Kong Baptist Church Incorporation Ordinance.

2. Interpretation
In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires—
church (教會) means the Hong Kong Baptist Church;
committee (委員會) means the committee elected by members of the church;
deacons (會佐) means the deacons of the church;
members (會友) means the adults who have been baptised in and admitted to the church or those transferred from other baptist churches and admitted to the church.

3. Description and incorporation
The trustees for the time being of the Hong Kong Baptist Church shall be a body corporate, hereinafter called the corporation

4. Powers of corporation
(1) The corporation shall have power to acquire, accept leases of, purchase, take, hold and enjoy any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements of what nature or kind soever and wheresoever situate, and also invest moneys upon mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements, or upon the mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities of any government, municipality, corporation, company or person, and also to purchase, acquire and possess vessels and other goods and chattels of what nature and kind soever.
(2) The corporation shall further have power by deed under its seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, 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, or vessels or other 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.

5. Transfer of property
The legal estate in any property whatsoever transferred to the corporation in any manner whatsoever shall in the event of the death of any of the trustees for the time being or in the event of any trustee ceasing to hold office as such trustee vest in the trustees for the time being duly appointed.

6. Number of trustees
The number of the trustees shall be seven.

7. Vacation of office by trustee
The office of any trustee shall be automatically vacated if such trustee shall die or shall resign his office or if a resolution be passed at a meeting of members of the church requiring the resignation of such trustee or if his term of office shall come to an end.