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(2) The Supreme Court shall be deemed always to have had power, prior to the commencement of the District Court Ordinance, 1953, to transfer, from the original jurisdiction register to the register of civil actions in the summary jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, any proceedings commenced by way of petition under subsection (2) of section 7 of the Land Transactions (Enemy Occupation) Ordinance.

(3) Subsection (1) shall be deemed to have had effect as from the 18th day of February, 1953, being the date of commencement of the District Court Ordinance, 1953.

(4) Anything which was done before the commencement of this Ordinance in purported exercise of any such powers as are mentioned in subsections (1) and (2), and which would have been lawfully dong if this Ordinance had been in operation at the time such thing was done, shall be deemed to have been lawfully done.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 8th day July, 1959.

RONG KONG

No. 23 of 1959.

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J

Deputy Clerk of Councila.

(Secretariat BL4/741/52)

I assent.

Resum

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Governor.

9th July. 1959.

An Ordinance to prevent circumvention and evasion of the Societies Ordinance. Chapter 151, and to provide for measures to be taken with respect to companies registered under the Companies Ordin- ance, Chapter 32, and companies to which Part XI of the Com- panies Ordinance applies which would, if they were societies registered under the Societies Ordinance, be liable to have their registration under that Ordinance cancelled by the Registrar of Societies on any of the grounds specified in subsection (5) of section 5 of that Ordinance, and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.

[10th July, 1959.1

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 as the Companies (Prevention of Short title. Evasion of the Societies Ordinance) Ordinance, 1959.

2. In this Ordinance "Official Receiver" means the Official Interpre- Receiver in Bankruptcy.

lation.