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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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