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Number 402
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Copies to:
Embassy, Nanking,
Commercial Counsellor, No.152,
Judge,
Crown Advocate.
British Consulate-General, 27
Shanghai.
December 17th 1936.
List of Singapore companies with branches in China
Extract from North China Daily News,
16/12/36
sir,
In accordance with the instructions given in
Your Excellency's despatch No. 50 Tour Series of the
9th December I have the honour to submit the following
observations on the despatch from the Governor's
Deputy in the Straits Settlements, about the proposals
for the amendment of our company legislation in China.
2. In the first place it would be as well to
point out that there is a misunderstanding in the
writer's mind regarding the term "China company". This
designation was adopted for the purposes of the China
Orders-in-Council and is defined by section 3 of the
1925 Order as "a company limited by shares or by
guarantee incorporated under the Companies Ordinance
1911 of the Colony of Hongkong, or any Ordinance
amending or substituted for the same, and the
operations of which are directed and controlled from
a place within the limits of this Order" (1.e. China).
3. It is obvious therefore that there are no
"China companies" incorporated in the Straits
Settlements, and Mr. Small is probably referring in
a general way to Singapore companies composed of
Chinese. He is right, however, in assuming that the
proposed legislation would apply to these if they
operated in China; and indeed not only to Straits
His Majesty's Ambassador,
British Embassy,
PEKING.
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