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(2) There shall be paid to the Registrar in respect of a licence issued to a company under this section, prior to the issue thereof, a fee calculated at the rate of 4 cents for every $100 of the paid-up capital of such company or, in the case of a company whose share capital is expressed in any other currency, at the equivalent rate in that currency according to the rate of exchange prevailing at the date of the application for such licence:
Provided that where the period between the date of issue of the first licence issued to a company under this section and the 31 December next following is less than a year, a proportionate part only of such fee shall be charged.
(3) When the Registrar has reasonable cause to believe that a company is keeping a register of members at any place outside Hong Kong without having a valid licence under this Ordinance, he shall publish in the Gazette and send to the company by post a notice that at the expiration of 3 months from the date of that notice the name of the company mentioned therein will, unless cause is shown to the contrary, be struck off the register and the company will be dissolved.
(4) At the expiration of the time specified in the notice referred to in subsection (3) the Registrar may, unless cause to the contrary is previously shown by the company, strike its name off the register, and shall publish notice thereof in the Gazette and, on the publication in the Gazette of this notice, the company shall be dissolved:
Provided that-
(a) the liability, if any, of every director, managing officer and member of the company shall continue and may be enforced as if the company had not been dissolved; and
(b) nothing in this subsection shall affect the power of the court to wind up a company the name of which has been struck off the register.
(5) If a company or any member or creditor thereof feels aggrieved by the company having been struck off the register, the court on an application made by the company or member or creditor before the expiration of 20 years from the publication in the Gazette of the notice aforesaid may, if satisfied that it is just that the company be restored to the register, order the name of the company to be restored to the register, and upon an office copy of the order being delivered to the Registrar for registration the company shall be deemed to have continued in existence as if its name had not been struck off; and the court may by the order give such directions and make such provisions as seem just for placing the company and all other persons in the same position as nearly as may be as if the name of the company had not been struck off.
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(6) A notice to be sent under this section to a company may be addressed to the company at its registered office, or, if no office has