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A BILL

INTITULED

An Ordinance to provide for the registration of Societies and for

matters related thereto.

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof:

1949.

1.

This Ordinance may be cited as the Societies Ordinance, Short title.

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-

Interpreta- tion.

(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;

"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;

"prescribed" means prescribed by rule made under this

Ordinance;

"local society" means any society organised and establish- ed in the Colony or having its headquarters or chief place of business in the Colony, and includes any society deemed to be established in the Colony by virtue of section 4 of this Ordinance;

"office-bearer" of a society means any person who is the president, or vice-president, or secretary or treasurer of such society, or who is a member of the committee or governing body thereof, or who holds in such society any office or position analogous to any of those mentioned above;

No. 8 of 1948.