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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 17, 1912.
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Registration
8.-(1.) If during the continuance of a
of changes in ship any change is made or occurs in :----
partnerships.
7 Ed. 7 c. 24
3. 9.
Advertise- ment in Gazette of
(a.) the firm name,
(b.) the general nature of the business,
(c.) the principal place of business,
limited partner:
(d.) the partners or the name of any partner,
(e.) the term or character of the partnership, (f.) the sum contributed by any limited partner, (g.) the liability of any partner by reason of his becoming a limited iustend of a general partner or a general instead of a limited partner,
a statement, signed by the firm, specifying the nature of the change shall within seven days be sent by post or delivered to the Registrar of Companies.
(2.) If default is made in compliance with the require- ments of this section each of the general partners shall, on summary conviction before a Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding ten dollars for each day during which the default continues.
9. Notice of any arrangement or transaction under which any person will cease to be a general partner in any firm, and will become a limited partner in that firm, or under which the share of a limited partner in a firm will be assigned to any person, shall be forthwith advertised in the Gazette, and until notice of the arrangement or trans- action is so advertised the arrangement or transaction shall, ment of share for the purposes of this Ordinance, be deemed to be of no
effect.
statement of general part ner becoming a limited partner and of assign-
of limited
partner.
Ib. s. 10.
Ad valorem stamp duty on contri- butions by limited partners. lb, s. 11.
Making false
misdemean-
10. The statement of the amount contributed by a limited partner, and a statement of any increase in that amount, sent to the Registrar for registration under this Ordinance, shall be charged with an ad valorem stamp duty of $2.50 for every $1,000 and any fraction of $1,000 over any multiple of $1,000, of the amount so contributed, or of the increase of that amount, as the case may be ; and, in default of payment of stamp duty thereon as herein required, the duty with interest thereon at the rate of eight per cent. per annum from the date of delivery of such statement shall be a joint and several debt to His Majesty, recoverable from the partners, or any of them, in the said statements named, or, in the case of an increase, from all or any of the said partners whose discontinuance in the firm shall not, before the date of delivery of such statement of increase, have been duly notified to the Registrar of Companies.
11. Every one commits a misdemeanor who makes, returns to be signs, sends, or delivers for the purpose of registration under this Ordinance any false statement known by him to be false or any incomplete statement known by him to be incomplete.
or.
lb. 8. 12.
Registrar to file
statement
and issue.
certificate of
12. On receiving any statement made in pursuance of this Ordinance the Registrar of Companies shall cause the same to be filed, and he shall send by registered post to the firm from whom such statement shall have been received a
registration, certificate of the registration thereof.
lb. s. 13.
Register and
index to be kept. Db. 8. 14.
Inspection of statements
registered. lb. s. 16.
13. The Registrar of Companies shall keep at his office, in proper books to be provided for the purpose, a register and an index of all the limited partnerships registered as aforesaid, and of all the statements registered in relation to such partnerships.
14.-(1) Any person may inspect the statements filed by the Registrar of Companies, and there shall be paid for each such inspection a fee of one dollar; and any persou may require a certificate of the registration of a limited partnership, or a copy of or extract from any registered statement, to be certified by the Registrar of Companies, and there shall be paid for such certificate of registration, certified copy, or extract such fees as the Court may appoint, not exceeding $1 for the certificate of registration, and not exceeding thirty cents for each folio of seventy- two words.