### Director of Social Welfare Incorporation Ordinance 《社會福利署署長法團條例》

8. Accounts, audit and annual report
(1) The corporation shall keep accounts and records of all transactions in respect of any trust funds it administers.
(2) The Director of Accounting Services may give such directions in writing to the corporation as he thinks fit with respect to the keeping of accounts and records referred to in subsection (1) and the corporation shall comply with any such direction.
(3) The corporation shall prepare in relation to the trust funds it administers a statement of accounts of the funds for each period of 12 months ending on 31 March in any year, in such form as the Director of Accounting Services may require in writing.
(4) A statement of accounts required by subsection (3) shall be signed by the person for the time being performing the duties of the office of the Director of Social Welfare and shall, unless the accounts of the trust funds the corporation administers have been audited by an independent accountant under section 24(4) of the Trustee Ordinance (Cap. 29), be submitted by the corporation to the Director of Audit not later than 30 September following the end of the period to which it relates, or such later date as the Chief Executive may allow. (Amended 41 of 1999 s. 3)
(5) Where the statement of accounts is submitted to the Director of Audit under subsection (4), such statement of accounts and the accounts of the funds referred to in subsection (1) shall be audited by the Director of Audit, who shall certify the statement of accounts together with such report, if any, as he may think fit and submit the audited statement of accounts and the report thereon, if any, to the corporation.
(6) A copy of the corporation’s audited statement of accounts, together with the Director of Audit’s report, if any, and a report, if any, by the corporation on the administration of the fund during the period covered by the audited statement of accounts shall be laid upon the table of the Legislative Council not later than 3 months after the audited statement of accounts and the report thereon, if any, are received by the corporation from the Director of Audit.
(Added 20 of 1989 s. 2)

### Hong Kong Council of the Church of Christ in China Incorporation Ordinance 《中華基督教會香港區會法團條例》

1. Short title
This Ordinance may be cited as the Hong Kong Council of the Church of Christ in China Incorporation Ordinance.

2. Interpretation
In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires—
chairman (主席), vice-chairman (副主席), treasurer (司庫) mean the chairman, vice-chairman and treasurer respectively appointed by the executive committee from time to time to act as such;
constitution (憲章) means the constitution for the time being in force governing the corporation together with any amendment thereto made from time to time in accordance with such constitution;
corporation (法團) means The Hong Kong Council of the Church of Christ in China incorporated under section 3;
executive committee (執行委員會) means the executive committee which has the power of management and control of the affairs of the corporation in accordance with the constitution;
general secretary (總幹事) means the general secretary appointed by the executive committee;
members (成員) means the active pastors, ministers and preachers holding office in the corporation and the delegates of the local churches, co-operating missions and church bodies, educational institutions, medical and religious institutions and missionary bodies as are or shall become members of The Hong Kong Council of the Church of Christ in China in accordance with the constitution.

3. Incorporation
The members for the time being of the Hong Kong Council of the Church of Christ in China shall be a body corporate and shall have the corporate name, “The Hong Kong Council of the Church of Christ in China”, 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 to the corporation may seem fit.
(Amended 4 of 2000 s. 3)

### Hong Kong Council of the Church of Christ in China Incorporation Ordinance 《中華基督教會香港區會法團條例》

4. Powers of corporation
(1) The corporation shall have power to acquire, accept and grant 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 build, rebuild, alter, vary, renew, maintain and repair any building, messuage or tenement, and also to invest moneys upon mortgages of any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements, or in 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) (Repealed 74 of 1974 s. 3)(3) The corporation shall further have power by deed under its seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, exchange, partition, yield up, mortgage, pledge, demise, reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings, messuages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities or goods and chattels whatsoever, which are for the time being vested in or belonging to the corporation, upon such terms as to the corporation may deem fit.

5. Execution of deeds
(1) All deeds, documents and other instruments requiring the seal of the corporation shall be—
(a) sealed in the presence of any three of the following persons namely, the chairman or in his absence from Hong Kong, of the vice-chairman, the treasurer, the general secretary and any two members of the executive committee; and
(b) signed by three of the persons named above in whose presence the seal was affixed.
(2) The seal shall be kept in the custody of the chairman, or in his absence from Hong Kong, in the custody of the vice-chairman.
(Amended 4 of 2000 s. 3)

### Hong Kong Council of the Church of Christ in China Incorporation Ordinance 《中華基督教會香港區會法團條例》

6. Vesting of property
(1) All those pieces or parcels of ground the particulars whereof are contained and more particularly described in the first column of the Schedule together with all rights, easements and appurtenances thereunto belonging or appertaining shall upon registration by the corporation in the Land Registry of a memorial of this Ordinance be transferred to and be vested in the corporation for the residues now unexpired of the terms created therein by the Crown Leases thereof respectively, subject to the payment of the rents reserved by the said Crown Leases respectively and the performance and observance of the lessees’ covenants and the conditions therein contained, and subject also to such mortgages, charges, leases, tenancies and other agreements (if any) and upon such trusts, conditions and stipulations, as may be subsisting in relation to such premises upon the commencement* of this Ordinance. (Amended 8 of 1993 s. 2; 20 of 2002 s. 5)
(2) On the coming into operation of this Ordinance all other property goods and chattels and rights which immediately before the commencement of this Ordinance were held in trust for The Hong Kong Council of the Church of Christ in China shall be transferred to and become vested in the corporation.

Editorial Note:
* Commencement date: 5 September 1958.

7. Proof of membership of the corporation and proof of the constitution
A certificate under the hand of the chairman, or in his absence from Hong Kong, of the vice-chairman— (Amended 4 of 2000 s. 3)
(a) that any active pastors, ministers or preachers holding office in the corporation or any local church, co-operating mission and church body, educational institution, medical institution, religious institution or missionary body named therein is a member of the corporation; or
(b) that any rules or regulations annexed to such certificate are the constitution,
shall be accepted for all purposes as sufficient proof of the fact that such active pastors, ministers or preachers, local church, co-operating mission and church body, educational institution, medical institution, religious institution or missionary body is a member of the corporation, or that the constitution was duly made and is in force.