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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 30, 1929. 449
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.
No. 443. The following Order of His Majesty in Council, which appeared in the London Gazette of the 12th July, 1929, is published for general information. The sections of the Companies (Consolidation) Act, 1908, to which the Order refers are those dealing with the keeping of a colonial register.
27th August, 1929.
W. T. SOUTHORN,
Colonial Secretary.
AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE,
THE 5TH DAY OF JULY, 1929.
PRESENT:
LORD PRESIDENT.
THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
EARL OF PLYMOUTH.
MR. SECRETARY HENDERSON,
SIR FREDERICK PONSONBY.
SIR ELLIS HUME-WILLIAMS.
LORD JUSTICE SLESSER.
SIR PHILIP SASSOON.
MR. D. H. HACKING.
EARL HOWE
VISCOUNT WOLMER.
MR. SECRETARY WEDGWOOD BENN
MAJOR J. W. HILLS.
LIEUT-COLONEL H. SPENDER-CLAY.
MR. CRAIGIE MASON AITCHISON.
SIR FRANCIS LOWE.
MR. H. D. KING.
WHEREAS by the Foreign Jurisdiction Acts. 1890 and 1913, it is, amongst other
things, provided that it shall be lawful for His Majesty in Council by Order to direct that Sections 34, 35 and 36 of the Companies (Consolidation) Act, 1908, shall extend, with or without any exceptions, adaptations, or modifications in the Order men- tioned, to any Foreign Country in which for the time being His Majesty has jurisdiction, and that thereupon those Sections shall, to the extent of that jurisdiction, operate as if that Country were a British l'ossession, and as if His Majesty in Council were the Legis- lature of that Possession :
AND WHEREAS by Treaty, grant, usage, sufferance, and other lawful means, His Majesty The King has jurisdiction in China:
AND WHEREAS it is expedient that Sections 34, 35 and 36 of the Companies (Con- solidation) Act, 1908, should be extended to China :
Now, THEREFORE, His Majesty, by virtue and in exercise of the powers in this behalf by the Foreign Jurisdiction Acts, 1890 and 1913, or otherwise in His Majesty vested, is pleased, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, that Sections 34, 35 and 36 of the Companies (Consolidation) Act, 1908, shall from the date of this Order apply to China as though it were a Colony within the meaning of the said Sections.
M. P. A. HANKEY,