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and functions of Registration Office.
25 & 26 Vict. c. 89 s. 174.
Use of certified copies as evidence.
40 & 41 Vict. c. 26 s. 6.
Restriction on powers of alteration of company.
30 & 31 Vict. c. 131 s. 41.
Repeal of inconsistent laws,
No. 1.] THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG: [A.D. 1865.
conducted as follows; that is to say,--
(1.) the Governor may from time to time appoint a Registrar of Companies and such other officers and servants as he may think necessary for the registration of companies under this Ordinance, and may award them such remuneration as he may direct;
(2.) the Governor may make such regulations as he thinks fit with respect to the duties to be performed by any such Registrar, officers, and servants as aforesaid;
(3.) the Governor may direct a seal to be prepared for authentication of any documents required for or connected with the registration of companies;
(4.) any person may inspect the documents kept by the Registrar, and there shall be paid for such inspection such fees as may be appointed by the Governor, not exceeding one dollar for each inspection; and,
(5.) any person may require a certificate of the incorporation of any company, or a copy or extract of any other document or any part of any other document, to be certified by the Registrar; and there shall be paid for such certificate of incorporation, certified copy, or extract such fees as the Governor may appoint, not exceeding five dollars for the certificate of incorporation and not exceeding fifty cents for each folio of such copy or extract.
PART VI.
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.
213. Any certificate of the incorporation of any company given by the Registrar of Companies shall be received in evidence as if it were the original certificate; and any copy of or extract from any of the documents or part of the documents kept and registered at the office for the registration of companies within the Colony, if duly certified to be a true copy under the hand of the Registrar of Companies (whom it shall not be necessary to prove to be such Registrar) shall, in all legal proceedings, civil or criminal, and in all cases whatsoever, be received in evidence as of equal validity with the original document.
214. Nothing in this Ordinance shall empower any company to alter any provision contained in any Ordinance relating to the company, or, without the sanction of the Governor, to alter any provision contained in any Letters Patent relating to the company.
215. After the commencement of this Ordinance all laws in force in this Colony inconsistent with the provisions of this Ordinance are hereby repealed.