SOCIETIES (AMENDMENT) (NO. 3) BILL 1988
Enclosure No.4
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A BILL
To
Amend the Societies Ordinance.
Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent
of the Legislative Council thereof.
1. (1) This Ordinance may be cited as the Societies (Amendment) Short title, (No. 3) Ordinance 1988.
commencement and application
(2) Subject to subsection (3), section 2 shall be deemed to have come (Cap. 151) into operation on 7 July 1978.
(3) Nothing in subsection (2) shall affect any legal proceedings com- menced on or before 21 June 1988 in respect of which any non-compliance with the Societies Ordinance by a partnership has been expressly put in issue on or before that date.
2. The Schedule to the Societies Ordinance is amended in item (6) by Persons to repealing", consisting of not more than 20 persons,".
Explanatory Memorandum
The objective of this Bill is to exclude the application of the Societies Ordinance to large partnerships i.e. partnerships of over 20 persons, registered under any other Ordinance with effect from the date when the Companies Ordinance was amended in 1978 to permit large partnerships in certain areas of business.
2. By clause 1(3) certain existing legal proceedings are excluded from the application of the amendment.
3.
plications.
There are no Public Service staffing or public expenditure im-
which the Ordinance does not apply