1956 ORDINANCES Nos. 2 AND 3 OF 1885 .
Apportionment. Larceny and Embezzlement.
companies , divisible between all or any of the members of
such respective companies, whether such payments shall
be usually made or declared at any fixed times or otherwise ;
and all such divisible revenue shall, for the purposes of
this Ordinance, be deemed to have accrued by equal daily
increment during and within the period for or in respect of
which the payment of the same revenue shall be declared
or expressed to be made, but the said word dividends shall
not include payments in the nature of a return or reim
bursement of capital.
Ordinance not 6. Nothing in this Ordinance contained shall render apportionable
to apply to
policies of any annual sums made payable in policies of assurance of any description .
assurance.
[ Ibid, s. 6. ]
Nor where 7. The provisions of this Ordinance shall not extend to any case in
stipulation
made to the which it is or shall be expressly stipulated that no apportionment shall
contrary.
[Ibid, § 7.] take place .
No. 3 of 1886.
An Ordinance to amend the Law relating to Larceny and
Embezzlement.
[ 10th March, 1886. ]
E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the
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Legislative Council thereof, as follows :
Short title. 1. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as The Larceny and
Embezzlement Amendment Ordinance 1886, and shall be read and construed
with Ordinance 7 of 1865 and all Crdinances amending the same.
Member of 2. If any person , being a member of any copartnership or being one
partnership
guilty of of two or more beneficial owners of any money, goods or effects , bills ,
converting to money ,
his own use , notes, securities , or other property , shall steal or embezzle any such
& c. partner
ship property, goods or effects, bills, notes , securities, or other property belonging to
liable to be
tried as if not any such copartnership or to such joint beneficial owners, every such
a member.
[ 31 and 32 V. person shall be liable to be dealt with, tried , convicted and punished for
c. 116, § 1.) the same as if such person had not been or was not a member of such
copartnership or one of such beneficial owners.