### Hong Kong Baptist University Ordinance 《香港浸會大學條例》

25. Accounts
(1) The University shall maintain proper accounts and records of all income and expenditure.
(2) After the end of each financial year, the University shall cause to be prepared statements of its income and expenditure during the previous financial year and of its assets and liabilities on the last day thereof.
(3) The University may, from time to time, fix a period to be its financial year.
(Amended 93 of 1994 s. 31)

26. Auditors
(1) The University shall appoint auditors, who shall be entitled at any time to have access to all books of account, vouchers and other financial records of the University and to require such information and explanations thereof as they think fit.
(2) The auditors shall audit the statements prepared under section 25(2) and shall report thereon to the University.
(Amended 93 of 1994 s. 32)

27. Statements and reports to be submitted to Chancellor
(1) The University shall, not later than 6 months after the end of each financial year, or before such later date as the Chancellor may allow in any particular year, submit to the Chancellor a report on its activities, copies of the statements prepared under section 25(2) and the report made under section 26(2). (Amended 93 of 1994 s. 33)
(2) (Repealed 93 of 1994 s. 33)

29. Unauthorized use of title of the University
(1) No person shall incorporate or form, or be a director, office bearer or organizer of, work in connexion with, or be a member of, any company, body corporate, firm or organization which, without the written authority of the University—
(a) purports or holds itself out to be—
(i) the University or any branch or part thereof; or
(ii) connected or associated with the University in any manner whatsoever; or
(b) uses the title “Hong Kong Baptist University” or “香港浸會大學” or a title in any language which so closely resembles the title “Hong Kong Baptist University” or “香港浸會大學” so as to be capable of deceiving or misleading any person into believing that the company, body corporate, firm or organization is—
(i) the University or any branch or part thereof; or
(ii) connected or associated with the University in any manner whatsoever. (Amended 93 of 1994 s. 35)
(2) Any person who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine at level 3. (Amended E.R. 1 of 2022)

### Hong Kong Baptist University Ordinance 《香港浸會大學條例》

30. Power of the Council to make statutes
The Council may make statutes for the better carrying out of the provisions of this Ordinance and in particular, but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, may provide for—
(aa) the membership and regulation of the proceedings of the Court; (Added 93 of 1994 s. 36)
(a) the regulation of the proceedings of the Senate and of any committee appointed under section 18;
(b) the membership and quorum of the Senate and of any committee appointed under section 18;
(c) the powers and duties of the Senate and the powers and duties of any committee appointed under section 18;
(ca) the membership, powers, and regulation of the proceedings of the boards of the faculties and schools of the University; (Added 93 of 1994 s. 36)
(d) the discipline of persons in the employment of the University;
(e) the regulation of the conduct and discipline of students of the University;
(f) the conferring of degrees and academic awards including honorary degrees and honorary awards; (Replaced 40 of 1988 s. 4)
(g) the holding and conduct of elections for the purpose of electing members of the eligible staff for appointment to the Council under section 15(1)(d) and to the Court in accordance with the statutes.
(Amended 93 of 1994 s. 36)

31. 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 53 of 2000 s. 3)

### Hong Kong Baptist University Ordinance 《香港浸會大學條例》

33. Vesting
(1) All property, whether movable or immovable, rights and privileges vested in the Board of Governors of the Hong Kong Baptist College immediately prior to the commencement** of the Hong Kong Baptist College Ordinance 1983 (50 of 1983) are hereby transferred to and vested in the University upon the same terms and conditions, if any, as those upon which they were held by the said Board of Governors. (Amended 93 of 1994 s. 38)
(2) The University shall be liable for all debts and liabilities of the Board of Governors of the Hong Kong Baptist College. (Amended 93 of 1994 s. 38)
(3) In this section the Board of Governors of the Hong Kong Baptist College (香港浸會學院校董會) means the Corporation incorporated in that name by the Hong Kong Baptist College Board of Governors Incorporation Ordinance (Cap. 1126, 1969 Ed.).

Editorial Note:
** Commencement date: 1 January 1984.

### Diocesan Preparatory School Council Incorporation Ordinance 《拔萃小學校董會法團條例》

1. Short title
This Ordinance may be cited as the Diocesan Preparatory School Council Incorporation Ordinance.

2. Interpretation
In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires—
constitution (章程) means the constitution of The Diocesan Preparatory School Council approved from time to time by its members for the time being in accordance with the constitution for the time being in operation;
corporation (法團) means the body incorporated by section 3.

3. Incorporation
The Diocesan Preparatory School Council shall be a body corporate, and shall have the name “The Diocesan Preparatory School Council” and in that name shall have perpetual succession and may sue and be sued in all courts in Hong Kong and shall have and may use a common seal.
(Amended 55 of 2000 s. 3)

4. Power of corporation
The corporation shall have full power—
(a) to manage, administer and operate the Diocesan Preparatory School;
(b) to acquire, accept leases of, purchase, take or otherwise hold and enjoy any land, buildings, messuages or tenements of what nature or kind soever and wheresoever situate; (Amended 74 of 1974 s. 3)
(c) to acquire, by purchase or otherwise, goods and chattels of any kind or description;
(d) to invest moneys on deposit in any bank in Hong Kong or elsewhere or in any Hong Kong or other government or municipal 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 or elsewhere; (Amended 55 of 2000 s. 3)
(e) 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, securities, vessels, 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;
(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 for the time being or for carrying into effect the provisions of this Ordinance.