is empowered to make rules and regulations the subject. For the breach of any of the provisions of ordinance, the commander-in-charge may be guilty.
The company is made liable to a penalty not exceeding $50 for every day during which it is in default, and a company which is found to be contravening any regulation made under it may be struck off the register and thereby dissolved.
4. It has been suggested to the Secretary that the provisions laying down the manner in which an English company registers in Hongkong are based on the Companies (Colonial Registers) Act 1883, and it should perform certain acts outside the Colony.
The Hongkong Legislature is, of course, within the competence of the Imperial Parliament, and His Lordship would be grateful if this could be enacted. The Corporate Parliament is also within the purview of the statutes.
5. By Royal Letters Patent, the Governor of Hongkong, by and with the advice of the Legislative Council, is empowered to "make laws for the peace, order, and good government of the Colony"; and, except when they are specially bestowed upon it by an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom, the Legislature of Hongkong does not possess any extraterritorial power of legislation.