1962 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 30TH DECEMBER, 1899.
Ordinance 1
of 1865.
Jurisdiction
(2.) Any such application may be made in the manner in which an application to rectify the register of members may be made under section thirty-four of the Companies Ordinance, 1865, and either before or after an order has been made or an effective resolution has been passed for the winding up of such company, and either before or after the commencement of any proceedings for enforcing the liabi lity on such shares consequent on the omission aforesaid, and any such application shall, if not made by the com- pany, be served on the company.
(3.) Any such order may be made on such terms and conditions as the Court may think fit, and the Court may make such order as to costs as it deems proper, and may direct that an office copy of the order shall be filed with the Registrar aforesaid, and the order shall in all respects have full effect.
(4.) Where the Court in any such case is satisfied that the filing of the requisite contract would cause delay or inconvenience, or is impracticable, it may, in lieu thereof, direct the filing of a memorandum in writing, and in a form approved by the Court, specifying the consideration for which the shares were issued, and may direct that on such memorandum being filed within a specified period it shall in relation to such shares operate as if it were a sufficient contract in writing within the meaning of section twenty- four of the Companies Ordinance, 1877, and had been duly filed with the Registrar aforesaid before the issue of such shares. The memorandum shall, before the filing thereof, be stamped with the same amount of ad valorem stamp duty as would be chargeable upon the requisite contract unless the contract has beeu produced to the Registrar duly stamped, or unless the Registrar is otherwise satisfied that the contract was duly stamped.
3. The jurisdiction given to the Court by this Ordinance cumulative. is not by implication to curtail or derogate from its jurisdic- tion to grant relief in any such case under section thirty-four of the Companies Ordinance, 1865, or otherwise.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 28th day of December, 1899.
Assented to by His Excellency day of December, 1899.
R. F. JOHNSTON, Acting Clerk of Councils.
the Governor, the 30th
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,
Colonial Secretary.
Short title and con- struction,
New section substituted for s. 5 of 8 of 1878.
No. 39 of 1899.
An Ordinance to amend the Dangerous Goods
Ordinance, 1873.
LS
HENRY A. BLAKE, Governor.
[30th December, 1899.]
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as The Dangerous Goods Amendment Ordinance, 1899, and it shall be read and construed as one Ordinance with Ordinance 8 of 1873 as amended by Ordinance 8 of 1892.
2. Section 5 of Ordinance 8 of 1873 is hereby repealed and, in lieu thereof, the following new section is substi- tuted
5. The following goods, namely:-
Petroleum, nitro-glycerine, or glonoine oil, gun cotton, fulminate of mercury or of other metals, dynamite, blasting powders, guupowder, fuzes (other than safety fuze), rockets, detonators, cartridges, am- mauition of all descriptions (other than percussion caps or priming caps or empty sporting cases), aqua fortis, vitriol, naphtha, and benzine shall be deemed to be dangerous goods within the meaning of this Ordinance.