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(2) The company shall give to the Regis trar of Companies notice of the situation of the office where any brauch register is kept, and of any change in its situation, and of the discontinuance of the branch register in the event of its being discontinued.
(3) A branch register shall be deemed to be part of the company's register of members (in this section called "the principal register ").
(4) A branch register shall be kept in the same manner in which the principal register is by this Ordinance required to be kept, except that the advertisement before closing the register shall be inserted in some newspaper circulating in the district wherein the branch register is kept.
(5) The company shall transmit to its regis- tered office a copy of every entry in its branch register as soon as may be after the entry is made, and shall cause to be kept at its regis- tered office, duly entered up from time to time, a duplicate of its branch register, and the duplicate shall, for all the purposes of this Ordinance, be deemed to be part of the prin- cipal register.
(6) Subject to the provisions of this section with respect to the duplicate register, the shares registered in a branch register shall be distinguished from the shares registered in the principal register, and no transaction with respect to any shares registered in a branch register shall, during the continuance of that branch register, be registered in any other register.
(7) The company may discontinue any branch register and thereupon all entries in that branch register shall be transferred to some other branch register kept by the com- pany in the same district or to the principal register.
(8) Subject to the provisious of this Ordi- nance, any company may, by its articles, make such provisions as it thinks fit for the keeping of branch registers.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 19th day of December, 1929.
E. I. WYNNE-JONES,
Deputy Clerk of Councils.