HONG KONG
28 or 1949.
I assent.
Governor.
26th May, 1949.
An Ordinance to provide for the registration of Societies and for
matters related thereto.
(27th May, 1949.]
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof:
1.
This Ordinance may be cited as the Societies Ordinance, Short dile,
1949.
2.
In this Ordinance-
Interpreti.
"society" includes any club, company, partnership, or association of ten or more persons, whatever its nature or object, but does not include-
too.
(a) any
company registered under the Companies Ordinance Ordinance, 1932, or any Ordinance in amendment or replacement No. 39 of thereof;
(b) any company or association constituted under Royal Charter, or Royal Letters Patent, or any Imperial Act, or any Ordinance;
(c) any Lodge of Freemasons regularly constituted under any of the registered governing bodies of Freemasons in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland;
1932.
(d) any trade union registered under the Trade Unions Ordinance and Trade Disputes Ordinance, 1948;
(e) any company, association or partnership, consisting of not more than twenty persons, formed for the sole purpose of carrying on any lawful business;
No. 8 of
1948.
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