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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

HONG KONG

No. 28 OF 1949.

L. S.

I assent.

Short title.

Interpreta- tion.

Ordinance No. 39 of 1932.

Ordinance

No. 8 of 1948.

A. G. GRANTHAM,

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, 1949.

2. In this Ordinance-

"society" includes any club, company, partnership, or 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;

(e) any company, association or partnership, consisting of not more than twenty persons, formed for the sole purpose of carrying on any lawful business;

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