Cap. 1027 《中華基督教會合一堂法團條例》Hop Yat Church of The Church of Christ in China Incorporation Ordinance

to manage, administer and operate the Hong Kong Hop Yat Church, the Kowloon Hop Yat Church, the Kowloon Hop Yat Church School, the Hop Yat Church Kindergarten and the Hop Yat Church Kai Chi School;

to establish, manage, administer and operate any clinic or clinics, hospital or hospitals, church or churches, school or schools or educational or charitable institution or institutions as the Corporation shall think fit;

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; (Amended 74 of 1974 s. 3)

to acquire, by purchase or otherwise, goods and chattels of what nature or kind soever;

to invest moneys on deposit in any bank in Hong Kong or in any government 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; (Amended 33 of 1999 s. 3)

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, shares, securities, vessels, goods or chattels for the time being vested in the Corporation, upon such terms as the Corporation may deem fit;

to act as custodian trustee or manager of any property or fund for any charitable purpose;

to accept gifts, donations and endowments for all or any of the purposes of the Corporation;

to subscribe to and to grant donations for any charities or educational purposes;

to develop either alone or jointly with other or others and turn to account any land acquired by the Corporation or in which it is interested, and in particular by laying out and preparing the same for building purposes, constructing, altering, pulling down, decorating, maintaining, fitting up, and improving buildings, and by planting, paving, draining, farming, cultivating and letting on building lease or building agreement, and by advancing money to and entering into contracts and arrangements of all kinds with builders, developers, contractors, land investment companies, land mortgage companies, building estate companies, banks, financiers, owners, lessees, tenants and others, in such manner or on such terms and conditions as the Corporation shall deem fit or expedient and to make applications and obtain orders under the Landlord and Tenant (Consolidation) Ordinance (Cap. 7) and to agree and pay such compensation as the Tribunal within the meaning of that Ordinance may recommend or order; (Amended 32 of 2002 s. 40)

to borrow money upon such terms as the Corporation shall think fit, and to raise money by public or private subscription; and

generally to do such other things as may appear to be incidental or conducive to the aims and objects of the Corporation. (Amended L.N. 235 of 1996)

all those pieces or parcels of ground specified in the second column of the Schedule, together with all rights, easements and appurtenances thereto belonging, shall vest in the Corporation for the unexpired residue of the respective terms of years created by the Crown leases and Conditions of Grant specified opposite thereto in the third column of the Schedule, subject to payment of the rent and performance of the covenants and conditions reserved by and contained in the said Crown leases and Conditions of Grant; and

the Corporation shall succeed to all other property, rights, privileges, obligations and liabilities of the trustees for the time being of the Hop Yat Tong Church of Christ Hong Kong incorporated under the repealed Hop Yat Tong Church of Christ Hong Kong Incorporation Ordinance (Cap. 1027, 1964 Ed.).

all ministers and preachers for the time being of the Hop Yat Church;

all deacons and deaconesses for the time being of the Hop Yat Church;

the chairman, vice-chairman, and secretary for the time being of the Council of each Unit Church; and

representatives for the time being from the Council of each Unit Church, which shall be entitled to have one elected member in respect of every 100 adult-members registered with such Unit Church to represent it in the Corporation: provided that the maximum number of the representatives of each Unit Church shall not exceed 5.