Cap. 1133 《香港基督敎循道衞理聯合敎會法團條例》The Methodist Church, Hong Kong, Incorporation Ordinance

to establish, manage, administer and operate any church, school, clinic, hospital, welfare centre, or educational or charitable institution as the Corporation may deem fit;

to acquire, accept leases of, purchase, take or otherwise hold and enjoy any land, buildings, messuages or tenements of whatsoever nature or kind and wheresoever situate; (Amended 17 of 2005 s. 2)

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

to invest moneys on deposit in any bank or finance company in Hong Kong or outside Hong Kong or in any government bonds or on mortgage of any land, buildings, messuages, or tenements of whatsoever nature or kind and wheresoever situate, or in or on debentures, debenture-stocks, funds, shares or securities of any corporation or company in Hong Kong or outside Hong Kong; (Replaced 17 of 2005 s. 2)

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 Methodist Church, Hong Kong;

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 may 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 may deem 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 Methodist Church, Hong Kong.

all those pieces or parcels of ground specified in the second column of Parts I, II and IV of the Schedule, together with all rights, easements and appurtenances thereto belonging, shall vest in the Corporation without any conveyance or assignment for the unexpired residue of the respective terms of years created by the Crown leases, conditions of sale, conditions of grant, conditions of exchange, conditions of regrant and new grant specified opposite thereto in the third column of Parts I, II and IV 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, conditions of sale, conditions of grant, conditions of exchange, conditions of regrant and new grant and subject also to such mortgages, charges, leases, tenancies and other agreement (if any) and upon such trusts, conditions and stipulations, as may be subsisting in relation to such premises upon the commencement of this Ordinance;

(Repealed 7 of 1997 s. 2)

the Corporation shall succeed to all other property, right, privileges, obligations and liabilities within Hong Kong of—

all ordained ministers and missionaries for the time being of The Methodist Church, Hong Kong;

all deacons and deaconesses and district workers appointed by The Methodist Church, Hong Kong;

all delegates for the time being of each local church of The Methodist Church, Hong Kong, elected by each such local church in accordance with the constitution;

a member of the Standing Committee who held office immediately preceding the annual conference of the Corporation of any one year, shall be a member of the Corporation during the year commencing from such annual conference immediately prior to which he held office as a member of the Standing Committee whether he may or may not be a member of the Corporation under paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of this section;

the delegates of any Conference Committee for any one year, elected by that particular Conference Committee to represent it at the annual conference for the immediate following year, shall be a member of the Corporation during the year commencing from the said annual conference.