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operation" qualify the words "no banking

company incorporated outside the Colony"

as well as the words "formed and registered

in the Colony". A licence should, it

is suggested, only be required when a

company starts a banking business after

the commencement of the Ordinance.

Ceation 353(2) and (3).

sub-sections purport to control the

activities of banks which set up new

branches elsewhere than in the Colony.

The Hong Kong Legislature has no power

to enast laws having application outside

Hong Kong, and the provisions of these

two sub-sections which relate to

branches established elsewhere than in

Shiried!!!

the Colony went be deleted.

Rection 358(3),

The absolute power

given to the Governor in Council to

cancel a licence without cause stated

is undesirable.

grounda on which

licence

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