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office in Hong Kong. See in this connection Shanghai telegram No.228 of 26.3.46 (a copy of
which Foreign Office sent to you under reference
F.4782/116/10). We thought we had met Shanghai's
difficulty by saying that the degree of direction
and control from Hong Kong would amount in practice
to little more than a formality See Foreign Office
telegram No. 132 of 21st May 1946, but evidently, the
difficulty would be a real one and Article 4A disposes
of it by saying that such a Company may have its
registered office in such place as is provided for
in its Memorandum of Association (which need not
necessarily be Hong Kong).
3. Under the additional Article 4B which it
appears from your letter may in fact have already
been added, provision is made for the registration
in Hong Kong of China Companies which transferred
their registration to the United Kingdom during Whilla
the war under Defence Regulation No. 5 and who now
back
wish to transfer/to Hong Kong in accordance with United
Kingdom Defence Regulation 5A.
4.
As regards Hong Kong Companies (i.e. non-
China Companies) who transferred their registration
tohen the
which
to United Kingdom during the war and ho now wish
to transfer their registration back again, the
necessary provision to enable this to be done in
have
Hong Kong will be made if the Bill which forms the
Enclosure No.1 to the Governor's despatch of 27th
November 1946 has now been enacted. In the telegram
to Hong Kong referred to above we will enquire whether
the Ordinance has been enacted.
fell
34/1946
Yours sincerely,
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