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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 17, 1911.
Appoint-
ment of
Registrars.
Registration of Societies.
Annual
registers to
(a) any company registered under the Companies Ordinance, 1865, or any Ordinance amending or substituted for the same;
(4.) any company or association constituted under Royal Charter, Royal Letters Patent, Act, or Ordinance;
(c.) any Lodge of Freemasons regularly constituted under any of the registered governing bodies of Freemasons in the United Kingdom; (d.) any company, association or partnership, con- sisting of not more than twenty persons, formed for the sole purpose of carrying on any lawful business;
the words “Registered Society" mean any Society for the time being registered under this Ordinance ;
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the words Exempted Society" mean any Society for the time being exempted from registration by an order of exemption made under this Ordinance ;
the word "Registrar" means the Registrar of Societies, and includes any Assistant Registrar;
the word "prescribed" means prescribed by rule made by the Governor-in-Commeil under this Ordin-
ance.
3. The Registrar General shall be the Registrar of Societies and the Assistant Registrars General shall be Assistant Registrars of Societies,
4. (1.) The Governor-in-Council may order that any Society be exempted from registration under this Ordinance and the Societies named in the Schedule shall be deemed to have been so exempted unless or until the Governor- in-Council shall otherwise order.
(2.) The Governor-in-Council may order that any Ex- empted Society be permitted to be registered under this Ordinance and thereupon such Society shall cease to be au Exempted Society.
(3.) The Governor-in-Council, upon application for registration or exemption by any Society, may order that such Society be permitted on payment of the prescribed fee to be registered under this Ordinance,
(4.) The Governor-in-Commeil shall not refuse permission to any Society to be registered under this Ordinance unless it shall appear that such Society is likely to be used for unlawful purposes or for purposes incompatible with the peace or good order of the Colony or that its action and proceedings are calculated to excite tumult or disorder in China or to excite persons to crime in China,
5. The Registrar shall cause to be published in the Gazette in April of each year a list of all existing Societies be published. registered or exempted from registration.
Cessation of
existence of
a Society.
Exempted Societies to furnish information.
6. If the Registrar shall have reason to believe that any Registered or Exempted Society has ceased to exist, he may publish in the Gazette a notification calling upon such Society to furnish him with proof of its existence within three mouths from the date of such notification, and if at the expiration of such three months the Governor-in-Coun- cil is satisfied that the Society has ceased to exist a notifi- cation to that effect shall be published in the Gazette and the Society shall be deemed to have ceased to exist from the date of such publication,
7.—(1.) The Registrar may at any time order any Exempted Society to, and the said Society thereupon shall, furnish him with
(a.) a true and complete copy of the constitution and rules of the Society in force at the date of such order;
(b) a true and complete list of the officers of the Society and a true statement of the number of its members.
(2.) The Governor-in-Council may at any time order any Exempted Society to, and the said Society theron shall, furnish such information concerning the Society as he may see fit to require.
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