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A.D. 1883.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 3RD NOVEMBER, 1883.
the same jurisdiction of rectifying the same as is by section thirty-five of the Companies Act, 1862, vested, as respects a register, in England and Ireland in Her Majesty's 25 & 26 Vict. c. 89. superior courts of law or equity, and that all offences under section thirty-two of the Companies Act, 1862, may, as regards a colonial register, be prosecuted summarily before any tribunal in the colony where such register is kept having summary criminal jurisdiction.
(4.) The company shall transmit to its registered office a copy of every entry in its colonial register or registers as soon as may be after such entry is made, and the company shall cause to be kept at its registered office, duly entered up from time to time, a duplicate or duplicates of its colonial register or registers. The provisions of section thirty-two of the Companies Act, 1862, shall apply to every such duplicate, and every such duplicate shall, for all the purposes of the Companies Acts, 1862 to 1880, be deemed to be part of the register of members of the
he company.
(5.) Subject to the provisions of this Act with respect to the duplicate regater, the shares registered in a colonial register shall be distinguished from the shares regis- tered in the principal register, and no transaction with respect to any shares registered in a colonial register shall, during the continuance of the registration of such shares in such colonial register, be registered in any other register.
(6.) The company may discontinue to keep any colonial register, and thereupon all entries in that register shall be transferred to some other oplonial register kept by the company in the same colony, or to the register of members kept at the registered office of the company.
(7.) In relation to stamp duties the following provisions shall have effect:-
(a.) An instrument of transfer of a share registered in a colonial register under this Act shall be deemed to be a transfer of property situated out of the United Kingdom, and unless executed in any part of the United Kingdom shall be exempt from British stamp duty.
(b.) Upon the death of a member registered in a colonial register under this Act, the share or other interest of the deceased member shall for the purposes of this Act so far as relates to British duties be deemed to be part of his estate and effects situated in the United Kingdom for or in respect of which probate or letters of administration is or are to be granted, or whereof an inventory is to be exhibited and recorded in like manner as if he were registered in the register of members kept at the registered office of the company.
(8.) Subject to the provisions of this Act, any company may, by its regulations as originally framed, or as altered by special resolution, make such provisions as it may think fit respecting the keeping of colonial registers.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION: No. 359.
The following notice is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 3rd November, 1883.
W. H. MARSH,
Colonial Secretary.
NOTICE.
All persons intending to apply for Seamen's Boarding House Licences for the year 1883-1884 should send in their applications in writing to this Office on or before Saturday, the 17th November, stating accurately the position of the house, and that there is an entire dwelling intervening between it and any house licensed for the sale of Spirituous or Fermented Liquors..
In measuring the rooms, strict regard will be paid to the regulations laid down on the 1st July, 1872, and no Licence will be granted to any house that does not come within the full meaning of the Ordinance.
Before a Licence can be issued, the Applicant will be required to produce the consent of a Police Magistrate.
Hongkong, 1st November, 1883.
H. G. THOMSETT,
Harbour Master, &c.