Short title.
Validation.
Schedule.
AND WHEREAS the Stamping and Denoting of Documents Regulations now provide for the stamping, by means of a frank- ing machine, of certain of the instruments chargeable with stamp duty:
AND WHEREAS the Stamp Duties Management (Franking Machines) Regulations, 1957, make provision for the licensing and control of franking machines used for stamping such instru-
ments:
AND WHEREAS it is expedient to validate the stamping of the instruments stamped by means of a franking machine used under the purported authority of, and in accordance with, the documents aforesaid:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of Hong Kong with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows-
1. This Ordinance may be cited Ke Franked Instruments (Validation) Ordinance, 1957.
All instruments chargeable with stamp duty stamped, prior to the 7th day of September, 1957, with the full amount of stamp duty chargeable in respect thereof, by means of a franking machine, under and in accordance with a document purporting to be a licence to use such machine issued on the day and to the persons specified in the Schedule, shall be deemed to have been lawfully stamped.
The Chartered Bank
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Nederlandsche Handel-Biaatschappij, M.V.
JOANNIGE
3.12.58.
14. 8.54.
20. 8.65.
25. 8.65.
18. 1.57.
18. 1.57.
The Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation, Ltd. ................
Banque De L'Indo-Chine nervouödetikhadijAJEHOTELLENE Banque Belge Pour L'Etranger (Extreme-Orient) S.A.
Sin Hoa Trust, Savings & Commercial Bank Ltd.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 16th day of October, 1957.
воват
Deputy Clerk of Councils.
(Secretariat GR3/2306/36)
SCHEDULE.
Person to whom purported licence issued.
The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
The Mercantile Bank of India, Ltd.
The Bank of East Asia, Lld.
The First National City Bank of New York
The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
The Shanghai Commercial Bank, Ltd. .....................ited The Bank of China, Ltd. ........................... Nationale Handelsbank, N.V.
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[B. 2.]
Date of Issue,
23.11.50.
23.11.60.
1. 5.51.
20.12.5.1.
11. 2,52.
3. 7.53.
14.11.58.
16.11.63.