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(c) any administrative or general provision in relation to a duty, tax, fee, rate or other item of revenue would be enacted, altered or removed,

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the Governor may make an order giving full force and effect of law to all the provisions of the bill or resolution so long as such order remains in force.",

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Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council; this 18th day of December, 1974.

HONG KONG

No. 80 of 1974

assent.

Clerk to the Legislative Council.

This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the bill, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said bill.

Alenys Roberts

Acting Chernor.

19th December, 1974.

An Ordinance to amend the Companies Ordinance.

[1st October, 1975]

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 Companies (Amend- ||ment) (No. 4) Ordinance 1974 and shall come into operation on

1st October 1975.

Short title and com- mencement

Amendment of section 2,

2. Section 2 of the principal Ordinance is amended- (a) in subsection (1) by inserting in their appropriate (ca. 32)

alphabetical positions the following new definitions---

"accounts" includes a company's group accounts, whether prepared in the form of accounts or not; "financial year", in relation to any body corporate, means the period in respect of which any profit and loss account of the body corporate laid before it in general meeting is made up, whether that period is a year or not;