### Hong Kong Christian Council Incorporation Ordinance 《香港基督教協進會法團條例》

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

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.

### Hong Kong Christian Council Incorporation Ordinance 《香港基督教協進會法團條例》

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)

### Franciscan Missionaries of Mary Incorporation Ordinance 《瑪利亞方濟各傳教修會法團條例》

1. Short title
This Ordinance may be cited as the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary Incorporation Ordinance.
(Amended 33 of 1987 s. 3)

2. Incorporation
The Mother Superior for the time being in Hong Kong of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary, hereinafter called the Mother Superior

3. 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 to invest moneys upon mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements or upon the mortgage, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities of any government, municipality, corporation, or company and also to purchase, acquire and possess 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. (Added 33 of 1987 s. 2)

4. Transfer of property
The legal estate in any property whatsoever, vested in the corporation in any manner whatsoever, shall, in the event of death of the Mother Superior or in the event of her ceasing to hold office as such Mother Superior, pass to her successor in such office subject to compliance with section 6(2).

5. Execution of documents
All deeds and other instruments requiring the seal of the corporation shall be sealed in the presence of the Mother Superior or of her attorney duly authorized, and such deeds and instruments and all other documents, instruments and writings requiring the signature of the corporation shall be signed by the Mother Superior or her attorney.

### Franciscan Missionaries of Mary Incorporation Ordinance 《瑪利亞方濟各傳教修會法團條例》

6. Appointment of Mother Superior and registration of particulars
(1) The appointment of a new Mother Superior, in the event of the death or for any other reason, shall be made by the Mother General of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary, Rome. (Amended 33 of 1987 s. 3)
(2) Whenever any person is appointed to the office of Mother Superior within 6 weeks or within such further period as the Chief Executive may allow after such appointment, the Mother Superior shall furnish to the Registrar of Companies notice of her appointment and evidence thereof to the satisfaction of such Registrar, and shall then and within 3 weeks of any change of address, furnish to such Registrar particulars of her place of residence or other sufficient address within Hong Kong. (Amended 32 of 1999 s. 3)
(3) The registration of the appointment of a Mother Superior shall be conclusive evidence of such appointment.
(4) There shall be payable to the Registrar of Companies a fee as required by the regulations made under section 26 of the Companies Ordinance (Cap. 622) for making a record of any fact by this Ordinance required or authorized to be recorded by the Registrar. (Amended 28 of 2012 ss. 912 & 920)

7. Saving of rights of the Central Authorities or the Government and of certain other rights
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 32 of 1999 s. 3)