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[C. No. 9.]
It is requested that any reply to this Letter may be addressed to the Comptroller of the Companies Department, 55, Whitehall, London, S.W., (Telegraphic Address: "Com- panies, Loudon,") and that the following number may be quoted:
2957/13.
10877
"EC"
-24 MAR 14
30
520
gir,
BOARD OF TRADE.
23rd March 1914.
I am directed by the Board of Trade to refer to your letter of the 10th January (29573/13) relating to a Hongkong Ordinance No. 22 of 1913 to amend the Companies Ordinance, 1911, and to express their regret that the matter has not been dealt with at an earlier date.
It is observed that the Ordinance has already been assented to, but the Board would have suggested for con- sideration that the object of the greater part of the Ordinance, which is to require that certain documents which have to be filed with the Registrar shall be in the English language, might have been effected more simply by a short
clause providing that all documents filed with the Registrar should be in the English language. There are a number of
documents required by the Ordinance of 1911 to be filed
which can apparently, still be in a foreign language.
The word "such" where it occurs before the word "names"
in the fourteenth line of subsection (a) of section 16 of
the Ordinance would appear strictly to limit the names which
can be removed to names which have been added to the list by
the Registrar. The intention is, no doubt, that the Registrar should have power to remove any name from the list.
I have the Honour to be,
The Under Secretary
of State,
Colonial Offios,
gir,
Your obedient servant,
At. aque
S. T.
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