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xa to companies already on the dhunghal Register/ no great
fiiculty in enîɔreing the provisions of Article 4 of the China
Companies) Order in Gounoil 1919 which provides that:
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"Mo person, other than a Jritish wubject resident within
the limits of this Dider, shall not as managing direstor or in any position similar to that of managing director or shall otherwise exercise general or substɛntiɛl con- trol of the business of a Chīnu Company".
ma to those "llongkong China Downies' which in accuzăınıee
th »rticle 3 of the new order in Council have now become "China
lanica', the Registrar of Companies at ilongkong, in writing to the
gistrar of Companies ut hnghai on the 8th of March last with
ecial referenos to The wing On (Shanghai) Limited, which on the
Cats stated in previous correspondence he wha convinged Wag now &
kina" Company, suggested that, as unfortunately the longkong Companies
Ananoes had not yetbean brought into agoord with the China (Compunier
adment Urdez în Cow:oil 1919, it would be advisable to defer taking
proceedings under the 1919 Order in Council uguinst any Company the Hongkong legister until the law in the Colony had been altered
us to make it agree with the Order in Council,
I had the honour to gonour in the suggestion as to the
rosity of cmending the longkong Companies Ordim:nces 1915 so se insor pozute în that Ordinɩnoe un addition to the definition of a
na Cospany' in the terus of the new Order in Council of 1919, and so informed the Registrɑu at ilongkong. It has not yet been
neeramzy to take proceedings against any 'China Company' under glisle 4 of the new Ordaz în Councí 1. All companies affeated there-
F have been so well adviseŭ ug to comply or take stepe to comply
On the necessary amendment in the definition in the long- Ordinance of a 'China Company" being wide, the possibility,
pierze to by the jingiutiaɛ ut longkong in his des «tch of the 8th I karch „above zažezzeć to, of the Supreme Court of llongkong holding
that