THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 17, 1907.
may sue and
2.-(1.) The said Company may sue and be sued and Company take all legal proceedings in any of the Courts of the Colony by the name of the Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij.
(2.) All writs of summons notices and legal process may be served on the said Company by being left at the office in Hongkong hereinafter mentioned or at any other office in the Colony where the business of the said Company will in the future he carried on.
be sued un- der its name.
3.—(1.) All conveyances powers of attorney deeds and Peeds signed other instruments of whatsoever nature which if the said by Manager
to be as valid Company were an English Corporation would require to be
as if under sealed with the Common Seal of the said Corporation shall
common seal be valid and effectual for all purposes if the same be of Company, executed and signed in the name or on behalf of the said Company under the hand and seal of the Manager for the time being of the said Company's agency in Hongkong.
(2.) Nothing in this section shall render invalid any other mode of execution which may for the time being be prescribed by the statutes of the said Company and which would be valid by the law of the Colony had this Ordinance not been passed.
have an office in Hongkong.
4. The Manager of the agency in Hongkong of the said Manager to Company shall have an office in Hongkong for the trans- action of the business of the Company on the outside of which shall be kept painted and affixed in a conspicuous position in letters easily legible the name of the said Company.
rial to be filed with
Registrar of
Companies.
5.--(1) Such Manager shall cause a memorial in the Manager to form and to the effect set forth in Schedule A or as near cause memo- thereto as the circumstances of the case will admit of verified by a Statutory Declaration in writing to be filed in the office of the Registrar of Companies in Hongkong.
(2.) Such memorial shall prior to being filed be signed by the said Manager and shall be accompanied by or have annexed thereto or endorsed thereon copies of the decrees notarial acts articles and other instruments under which the Company is established and copies of the various rules under which the business of the Company is conducted and also translations into the English language of such copies such translations being verified by Statutory Declaration or otherwise to the satisfaction of such Registrar,
cated.
6. No memorial shall be filed unless the authority of the Authority of Manager by whom it is signed and the copies of the decrees Manager to acts deeds and other documents accompanying the memorial be authenti- shall be authenticated either by the signature and seal of office of one of the Ministers of the Government of the Netherlands at the Hague such signature and seal being verified by a British Ambassador or Consular Officer or unless the same shall be authenticated by the signature and seal of one of the Secretaries of the Government of Nether- lands India at Batavia and countersigned by the British Consul at Batavia for the time being.
Manager or
7. Whenever any new or other Manager of the agency Memorial of in Hongkong of the said Company shall be appointed or change in any change in or addition to any of the facts stated in any in facts to memorial which may have been filed shall take place a like be filed. memorial in the form and to the effect set forth in the Schedule B verified as aforesaid shall as soon as may be after such appointment change or addition shall have been made be filed as aforesaid specifying the name and descrip- tion of such new or other Manager and containing a state- ment of the change or addition which may have taken place in the facts aforesaid.
8.-(1) Until such memorial as first hereinbefore men- Section 3 not tioned shall have been filed the provisions of Section 3 shall to come into not come into operation.
operation un-- til memoria!
(2.) Until the memorial by this Ordinauce required to be verified and filed in the event of the appointment of a new Manager shall have been duly verified and filed the person whose name shall appear in the last memorial which shall have been duly filed in the office of Registrar of Companies as aforesaid shall for the purposes of this Ordinance be deemed to be the Manager of the agency in Hongkong of the said Company as if no uew Manager had been appointed.
filed.
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