COMPANIES ORDINANCE.
(Chapter 32).
COMPANIES (FORMS) (AMENDMENT) Order, 1961.
WHEREAS by section 153 of the Companies Ordinance, it is provided Preamble. that a transferee company may give notice to a dissenting shareholder
of a transferor company in the prescribed manner:
AND WHEREAS by section 2 of the said Ordinance the expression "prescribed as used in the said section 153 means prescribed by the Governor in Council:
NOW THEREFORE the Governor in Council prescribes, and it is |||hereby prescribed by order, as follows-
1. This Order may be cited as the Companies (Forms) (Amend- Cllation, mcot) Onder, 1961.
1. The Companies (Forms) Order is amended by the addition Addition after paragraph 7 of the following new paragraph-
"Mods of delivery of notice in Form X1.
of Dew paragraph 3.
8. Where notice in Form XI of the Schedule to this (Vol. VIII, Order is given by a transferee company pursuant to section P. 7). 153 of the Ordinance, such notice shall be given to the disscoting shareholder either personally within the Colony or by sending it by registered post to him at his address within the Colony registered in the books of the transferor company or (if he has no address within the Colony so registered) to the address, if any, within the Colony supplied by him to the transferor company for the giving of notice to him.",
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
7th March, 1961.
Explanatory Note.
Clerk of Councils.
(This Notë ir nor part of the Order but is intended
to indicate its general purport).
Section 153 of the Companies Ordinance requires that notice shall be given the prescribed manner when a company acts pursuant to section 153, but the manner in which the notice must be given was not previously prescribed. This Order is adapted from Companies (Forms) No. 2 Order, 1929, made by the Board of Trade in the United Kingdom and is intended to make good the previous omission of corresponding provision in Hong Kong,
(Secretariat L/MG 2610/61)