empowered to make laws
Legislative Council,
was em
for the peace order and good government of the
Colony; and that, except where they
specially bestowed upon it by
the Crown or
by Act of Parliament of the United
Kingdom, the Legislature of Hong Kong
did not possess any power of extra-territorial
legislation.
urged
That on the other side it might be
that the provisions of the present
were not made enforceable by
Ordinance were
Action beyond the boundaries of the Colony
and
and that as a
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Company registered under the
Hong Kong Companies Ordinance of 1865 was
creation of the Hong Kong
absolutely
a
Legislature, that that Legislature could legally
impose any
conditions it pleased in return for
the privilege of incorporation. That it might
not be able to enforce
Colony but, that it might be contended that
them by Action outside the
A
it could lay down what must be done by
Company within or without the Colony,
in order to obtain or retain recognition of its
corporate character by the Hong Kong Courts, word that while as a company registered in
Hong Kong
AS