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Saving of
No. 7.] THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG: [A.D. 180
6. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed to affect the rights of Her Majesty, her heirs or successors, or of any bodies politic or corporate or other persons, except such as are mentioned in this Ordinance and those claiming by, from, or under them.
Crown, etc.
Fees.
7.—(1.) There shall be payable by the said Corporation to the Registrar of Companies a fee of three dollars on the deposit and filing of each copy of the by-laws and a further fee of three dollars for the making and filing of every such declaration as is mentioned in section 5. (2.) A fee of fifty cents shall be payable for every search of the file.
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A.D. 1898.
Ordinance No. 12 of 1893.
QCM Uld4 $ 1280 (4.8.777/09)
ORDINANCE No. 8 OF 1893.
AN ORDINANCE concerning Statutory Declarations.
[4th September, 1893]
WHEREAS, by an Act of Parliament made and passed in the fifth and sixth years of the reign of his late Majesty King William the Fourth, Chapter 62, intituled "An Act to repeal an Act of the present Session of Parliament, intituled 'An Act for the more effectual Abolition of Oaths and Affirmations taken and made in various Departments of the State, and to substitute Declarations in lieu thereof; and for the more entire Suppression of Voluntary and Extra-Judicial Oaths and Affidavits,' and to make other Provisions for the Abolition of unnecessary Oaths," but now known as "The Statutory Declarations Act, 1835," after reciting that it might be necessary and proper in many cases not therein specified to require confirmation of written instruments or allegations or proof of debts or of the execution of deeds or other matters, it was enacted (amongst other things) that it should and might be lawful for any Justice of the Peace, Notary Public, or other officer then by law authorized to administer an oath to take and receive the declaration of any person voluntarily making the same before him in the form in the schedule thereto annexed, and that if any declaration so made should be false or untrue in any material particular the person wilfully making such false declaration should be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor; and whereas it has been the practice for Justices of the Peace and others in this Colony to take and receive declarations purporting to be made by virtue of the provisions of the said Act; and whereas doubts have arisen whether or not the said enactment extends to and is in force in this Colony and whether or not the said