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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 14, 1907.
Short title
and con- struction.
Amendment.
of Section 175 of the Principal Ordinance.
A BILL
ENTITLED
An Ordinance to amend the Public Health and
Buildings Ordinance, 1903.
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 at the Public Health and Buildings (Amendment) Ordinance, 1907, and shall be read and construed as one with the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, hereinafter called the Principal Ordinance.
2. Section 175 of the Public Health and Buildings Or- dinance is hereby amended by the substitution for sub-section (4) of the following sub-section :--
(4.) The Board with the consent of the Governor- in-Commeil shall have power in all cases to grant a modification of or exemption from the requirements of this section upon such condi- tions if any as the Board may deem expedient.
Preamble.
Company may take hold and dispose of property of every kind.
Company
A
BILL
ENTITLED
An Ordinance for giving to a Foreign Company called the Nederlandsch-Indische Handelsbank certain facilities for carrying on its business in the Colony.
WHEREAS a Company has been incorporated in the Netherlands for the transaction of trading banking and financial business under the name of the Nederlandsch- Indische IIandelsbank under Royal Decrees of the late King of the Netherlands whereby the liability of the shareholders is limited to the amount of their shares respectively: And Whereas an agency of the said Com- pany has been established in this Colony: And Whereas it appears that the said Company has in accordance with the law of the Netherlands no common scal and is therefore unable to exercise divers of the powers which corporations baving common seals can and may exercise: And Where- as it is expedient to enable the said Company to carry on its business in the Colony in like manner as though it had been incorporated under the law of this Colony:
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. The said Company shall be capable in law to take hold and dispose of property moveable or immoveable within the Colony for the purpose of its business.
2.-(1.) The said Company may sue and be sued and may sue and take all legal proceedings in any of the Courts of the he sued un- Colony by the name of the Nederlandsch-Indische Han-
delsbank.
der its name.
as if under
(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 be carried ou.
Deeds signed 3.-(1.) All Conveyances powers of attorney deeds and by Manager other instruments of whatsoever nature which if the said to be as valid Company were an English Corporation would require to be common seal sealed with the Common Seal of the said Corporation shall of Company. be valid and effectual for all purposes if the same be 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.