Chapter:	1158	Title:	CHURCH BODY OF THE HONG KONG SHENG KUNG HUI ORDINANCE	Gazette Number:	L.N. 55 of 1999
Section:	6	Heading:	Powers of Church Body	Version Date:	26/02/1999

(1) The Church Body may-

(a) acquire, hold, grant any interest in, or any kind of licence in relation to, or otherwise dispose of, land, and acquire, hold or dispose of other property of any description;
(b) make contracts or other agreements;
(c) invest moneys on deposit with any bank, or upon mortgage of property in Hong Kong, or in debentures, stocks, funds, shares, or securities of any government, corporation or company, or in such other investment as the Executive Committee thinks proper;
(d) receive and expend moneys;
(e) employ such persons and engage or appoint such consultants, advisers, or agents as the Executive Committee considers necessary upon such terms and conditions as that Committee thinks appropriate;
(f) accept donations, grants or subsidies from any persons or government authority or other body or organization, and in particular accept any gift of property, whether subject to any special trust or not, for the benefit of the Church Body;
(g) undertake and execute any trusts which may seem directly or indirectly conducive to the carrying out of any of the purposes of the Church Body; and
(h) subject to this Ordinance, do or suffer all such acts and things as bodies corporate may in general lawfully do or suffer.

(a) either alone or jointly with other persons, to improve, develop, redevelop and turn to account any land belonging to the Church Body or in which the Church Body has or may acquire a sufficient interest by reconstructing, altering and demolishing buildings and by constructing new buildings of any kind;
(b) to obtain vacant possession by any lawful means of any land belonging to the Church Body or in which the Church Body has or may acquire a sufficient interest and of any buildings on such land;
(c) to pay compensation to occupiers vacating any land or buildings;
(d) to borrow or raise or secure the payment of money in such manner as the Church Body thinks proper for the purpose of developing any land belonging to the Church Body or in which the Church Body has or may acquire a sufficient interest and for payment of compensation to occupiers for vacating any such land or any buildings on that land;
(e) to lay out and prepare land for building purposes, to let land on building leases and to enter into building agreements, and for such purposes to apply to any tribunal or court or authority for any order, licence, permission, or exemption that may be required.