Annex A
A BILL
To
Provide for the corporate status in Hong Kong of bodies established or
formerly established under the laws of certain territories
outside Hong Kong.
Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and
consent of the Legislative Council thereof.
1.
Short title
This Ordinance may be cited as the Foreign Corporations
Ordinance.
2.
Recognition of corporate status of certain foreign corporations
(1) If at any time
(a)
(b)
a question arises as to whether a body, which purports
to have or which appears to have lost corporate status
under the laws of a territory outside Hong Kong which
is not at that time a recognized State, should or
should not be regarded as having legal personality as
a body corporate under the law of Hong Kong; and
it appears that the laws of that territory are at that
time applied by a settled court system in that
territory,
that question and any other material question relating to the body
shall be determined (and account shall be taken of those laws) as if
that territory were a recognized State.
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