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Appointment of Registrars.
Registration of Societies.
Annual registers to be published.
Cessation of existence of a Society.
by an order of exemption made under this Ordinance;
the word "Registrar" means the Registrar of Societies,
and includes any Assistant Registrar;
the word "prescribed" means prescribed by rule made
by the Governor-in-Council under this Ordinance.
3. The Registrar General shall be the Registrar of
Societies and the Assistant Registrars General shall be
Assistant Registrars of Societies.
4.-(1.) The Governor-in-Council may order that any
Society be exempted from registration under this Ordinance
and the Societies named in the Schedule shall be deemed to
have been so exempted unless or until the Governor-in-
Council shall otherwise order.
(2.) The Governor-in-Council may order that any Exempted
Society be permitted to be registered under this Ordinance
and thereupon such Society shall cease to be an Exempted
Society.
(3.) The Governor-in-Council, upon application for
registration or exemption by any Society, may order that
such Society be permitted on payment of the prescribed fee
to be registered under this Ordinance.
(4.) The Governor-in-Council shall not refuse permission
to any Society to be registered under this Ordinance unless
it shall appear that such Society is likely to be used for unlawful purposes or for purposes incompatible with the peace or good order of the Colony or that its action and
proceedings are calculated to excite tumult or disorder in
China or to excite persons to crime in China.
5. The Registrar shall cause to be published in the
Gazette in April of each year a list of all existing
Societies registered or exempted from registration.
6. If the Registrar shall have reason to believe that
any Registered or Exempted Society has ceased to exist, he