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member or creditor may, if satisfied that it is just that the company be restored to the Register, order the name of the company to be restored to the Register, and thereupon the company shall be deemed to have continued in existence as if its name had not been struck off; and the court may by the order give such directions and make such provisions as seem just for placing the company and all other persons in the same position as nearly as may be as if the name of the company had not been struck off.
(4) A letter or notice under this section may be addressed to the company at its registered office, or, if no office has been registered, to the care of some director or officer of the company, or, if there is no director or officer of the company whose name and address are known to the re- gistrar of companies, may be sent to each of the persons who subscribed the memorandum, addressed to him at the address mentioned in the memorandum.
Provided that nothing in this section shall affect any other legal method of enforcing fines or penalties imposed by a Magistrate.
258. If in any proceeding against a director, or person occupying the position of director, of a company for grant relief negligence or breach of trust it appears to the court hearing the case that the director or person is or may he liable in respect of the negligence or breach of trust, but has acted honestly and reasonably, and onght fairly to be excused for the negligence or breach of trust, that court may relieve him, either wholly or partly, from his liability on such terms as the court may think proper.
8 Edw. 7 c. 69 s. 279,
Penalty for false state- ment.
fb. 8. 281.
of word **Limited. [b. s. 282.
259. If any person in any return, report, certificate, balance sheet, or other document, required by or for the purposes of any of the provisions of this Ordinance specified in the Fourth Schedule bereto, wilfully makes a statement false in any material particular, knowing it to be false, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
260. If any person or persons trade or carry on business Penalty for improper use under any name or title of which “Limited" is the last word, or under any name or title of which the Chinese characters BA from part, that person or those persons shall, unless duly incorporated with limited liability, be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars for every day upon which that name or title has been used.
Interpreta- tion.
Ih, s. 285.
Interpretation, &e.
261. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them (that is to say) :----
"Existing company" means a comp ny formed and registered under the Companies Ordinance, 1865, or under the Companies Registration Ordinance, 1866;
"Company" means a company formed and registered under this Ordinance or an existing company; "Articles means the articles of association of a company, as originally framed or as altered by special resolution, including, so far as they apply to the company, the regulations contained in Table A in First Schedule to this Ordinance ; "Memorandum" means the memorandum of associ- ation of a company, as originally framed or as altered in pursuance of the provisions of this Ordinance;
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Document" includes summons, notice, order, and
other legal process, and registers;
"Share" means share in the share capital of the company, and includes stock except where a distinction between stock and shares is express- ed or implied;
"Debenture" includes debenture stock;
"Books and papers" and "books or papers" include accounts, deeds, writings, and documents;