CAP. 70]
The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Regulations
[1989 Ed.
[Subsidiary]
The board may from time to time direct a register of its shareholders and shall enter therein the particulars specified in paragraph (2) of this regulation (8 of 1946 s. 2; L.N. 86 of 1974)
(a) in Hong Kong, a register which shall be called "the principal register";
(b) such local registers as it may from time to time in its sole discretion determine.
(2) In the registers aforesaid there shall be entered or stored the following particulars— (L.N.86 of 1974)
(a) the names and addresses, and the occupations or descriptions, if any, of the shareholders respectively entitled and requiring to be registered in one of such registers, and a statement of the shares held by each shareholder distinguishing each share by its number so long as the share has a number, and of the amount paid or agreed to be considered as paid on the shares of each shareholder: Provided that no shareholder shall be entitled to be entered in more than one register at the same time in respect of the same shares; (G.N.A. 86 of 1960)
(b) the date at which each shareholder was entered in the register as a shareholder in respect of any share or shares;
(c) the date at which each shareholder ceased to be a shareholder in respect of any share or shares.
(3) Such registers may be closed from time to time as provided for by regulation 47.
(4) Every local register shall be deemed for all purposes to be part of the principal register, and the manager of any establishment at which there is a local register shall transmit to the head office a copy of all entries in any local register as soon as may be after the entries are made; and the bank shall cause to be kept at its head office, duly entered up from time to time, duplicates of the entries in any local register, and such duplicates shall for all the purposes of the Ordinance and these regulations be deemed to be part of the principal register.
(5) (Repealed L.N. 157 of 1987)
(6) No share upon the principal register shall be transferred to any local register nor shall shares upon any local register be transferred to the principal register except with the consent of the board. (8 of 1946 s. 2; L.N. 86 of 1974)
(7) (Repealed L.N. 157 of 1987)
33. Register as evidence
Any register of shareholders shall be prima facie evidence of any matters by these regulations directed or authorized to be inserted therein respectively, and a copy or extracts from any such register, if certified as correct by the secretary or manager of any establishment at which such register is kept, shall
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