Section 11

No person shall be eligible for the office of Thye Lee or

Managing Trustee unless—

The first members of the Standing Committee shall be Poh

Kim Tiong of No. 55, Jonker Street, Malacca, Chan Teck Chye of No. 30, Second Cross Street, Malacca, Tan Cheng Lock of 96,

First Cross Street, Malacca and Loh Kim Swi of 317C, Klebang

Besar, Malacca.

The members of the Standing Committee (other than the original members) shall be elected from the members of the

Corporation in manner hereinafter appearing.

The four original members of the Standing Committee named in subsection (3) shall retire from office in the order therein set out respectively at the second, third, fourth and fifth Annual General

Meetings of the Corporation held after the commencement of this

Act. In each case, the retiring member shall be eligible for re-election at the Annual General Meeting at which he retires.

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Cheng Hoon Teng Temple (Incorporation)

Thereafter each member of the Standing Committee shall retire from office at the Annual General Meeting held next after the expiry of a period of five years from the date of such member’s previous election or re-election. Such retiring member shall be eligible for re-election at the Annual General Meeting at which he retires.

If any member of the Standing Committee desires to retire from acting as such he shall give to the Corporation one month’s notice in writing of such desire, and his resignation shall take effect from the date of the expiration of such notice or its earlier acceptance by the remaining members of the Standing Committee.

If for any cause any casual vacancy shall occur in the Standing

Committee such vacancy may be filled by a member of the

Corporation elected by the Standing Committee, and any person so elected shall (unless otherwise arranged at the time of his election) hold office for the remainder of the period during which the member in whose place he shall be elected would have held office had such a vacancy not occurred.

Any member of the Standing Committee with the consent of that Committee may, by writing under his hand, appoint any member of the Corporation (including another member of the

Standing Committee) to be his substitute for any period not exceeding three months and every such substitute shall, in the absence from the Standing Committee of the member appointing him, be entitled to attend and vote at the meetings of the Standing Committee and shall have and exercise all powers, rights, duties and authorities of the member appointing him. A member of the Standing Committee may, at any time, revoke the appointment of a substitute appointed by him and, subject to the consent of the Standing Committee, appoint another person in his place, and if a member of the Standing

Committee shall die, or cease to hold office, the appointment of his substitute shall thereupon cease and determine. Any member of the Standing Committee who is appointed a substitute under this subsection on behalf of one or more members shall be entitled to vote at a meeting of the Standing Committee on behalf of the member or each of the members so appointing him as distinct from the vote to which he is entitled in his own capacity as a member of the Standing Committee and shall also be considered as two or more members for the purposes of making a quorum of the Standing

Committee. Every person acting as a substitute for a member shall alone be responsible to the Corporation for his own acts and defaults, and he shall not be deemed to be agent of or for the member appointing him.

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Employment of Secretaries, Treasurers, etc.