A BILL
Intituled
An Ordinance to provide for the registration of Societies and
for matters related thereto.
BE it enacted by the Covernor of Hong Kong, with the advice
and consent of the Legislative Council thereof :
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Societies Ordinance,
Short title.
1949.
2.
Interpretation.
Ürdinance No. 39 of 1932.
Ordinance No. 8 of 1948.
In this Ordinance
or 膂
'society" includes any club, company, partnership,
association of ten or more persons, whatever its nature or object,
but does not include
(a) any company registered under the Companies Ordinance,
1932, or any ordinance in amendment or replacement 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;
(d) any trade union registered under the Trade Unions
and Trade Disputes Ordinance, 1948;
(c) any company, association or partnership, consisting
of not more than twenty persons, formed for the sole purpose of
carrying on any lawful business;
"exempted society" means any society for the time being
exempted from registration by an order of exemption made under
this Ordinance;
"registered society" means any society for the time
being registered under this Ordinance;
Ordinance;
"prescribed" means prescribed by rule made under this
"Registrar" means the officer appointed as Registrar of
Societies for the Colony;