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the applicant, or to which he is, or may be, liable upou such terms as it may think fit.
(5.) The provisions of this article shall not apply to China Companies limited by guarantee operating in China at the date of this Order.
15.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this Order, the jurisdiction of the court in respect of all British Companies carrying on business in China shall be exercised, so far as circumstances admit, in conformity with the provisions of the Ordinance and of the Life Insurance Companies Ordinance, except that section 16 of the Com- panies Amendment Ordinance, 1913, shall not apply in China.
(2.) Where reference is made or inferred in any section of the sail Ordinances to any other Ordinance of the colony of Hong Kong which does not apply within the limits of this Order, such section shall be read as, though the corre- sponding law or enactment applicable in England were referred to therein.
(3.) The duties of the Governor, or of the Governor in Council, or of the Colonial Treasurer under section 20, 21, 120 (4), 219, 253, and 255 of the Ordinance shall within the limits of this Order be exercised by the Minister, and under sections 141 (1, 149, 185, 217, and 261 shall within the limits of this Order be exercised by the Judge.
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(5.) All offences under the said Ordinances made punishable by fine may, if committed within the limits of this Order, be prosecuted summarily under article 48 of the Principal Order, provided that the maximum fine which can be imposed in the case of offences under the Ordinances tried summarily shall be 2001. instead of 201.
16.-(1.) The power of the Judge under article 119 of the Principal Order to make rules of court shall extend to any matter which under the Ordinance or under the Life Insurance Com- panies Ordinance is to be regulated by rules.
(2.) Any rules in force at Hong Kong at the date of this Order relating to matters dealt with in the said Ordinances, shall, unless and until they are
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so far as circumstances admit, within the limits of this Order.
17. All fees prescribed by or under the Ordinance or by or under the Life Insurance Companies Ordinance which are paid to the Registrar of Companies at Shanghai shall be paid by him to the Colonial Treasurer at Hong Kong.
18. Nothing in this Order shall prejudice or affect the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court over British Companies other than China Companies and Hong Kong China Companies within the meaning of this Order.
19. This Order shall come into effect on
And the Right Honourable Sir Edward Grey, Baronet, K.G., one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, is to give the necessary directions herein.