CO129-354 - Public Offices & Others - 1908 — Page 26

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empowered to make laws

Legislative Council,

was em

for the peace order and good government of the

Colony; and that, except where they

specially bestowed upon it by

the Crown or

by Act of Parliament of the United

Kingdom, the Legislature of Hong Kong

did not possess any power of extra-territorial

legislation.

urged

That on the other side it might be

that the provisions of the present

were not made enforceable by

Ordinance were

Action beyond the boundaries of the Colony

and

and that as a

Company registered under the

Hong Kong Companies Ordinance of 1865 was

creation of the Hong Kong

absolutely

Legislature, that that Legislature could legally

impose any

conditions it pleased in return for

the privilege of incorporation. That it might

not be able to enforce

Colony but, that it might be contended that

them by Action outside the

it could lay down what must be done by

Company within or without the Colony,

in order to obtain or retain recognition of its

corporate character by the Hong Kong Courts, word that while as a company registered in

Hong Kong

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empowered to make laws Legislative Council, was em for the peace order and good government of the Colony; and that, except where they specially bestowed upon it by the Crown or by Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom, the Legislature of Hong Kong did not possess any power of extra-territorial legislation. urged That on the other side it might be that the provisions of the present were not made enforceable by Ordinance were Action beyond the boundaries of the Colony and and that as a 25 Company registered under the Hong Kong Companies Ordinance of 1865 was creation of the Hong Kong absolutely a Legislature, that that Legislature could legally impose any conditions it pleased in return for the privilege of incorporation. That it might not be able to enforce Colony but, that it might be contended that them by Action outside the A it could lay down what must be done by Company within or without the Colony, in order to obtain or retain recognition of its corporate character by the Hong Kong Courts, word that while as a company registered in Hong Kong AS

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empowered to make laws Legislative Council, was em for the peace order and good government of the Colony ; and that, except where they specially bestowed upon it by wer the Crown or by Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom, the Legislature of Rongkong did not possess any power of extra-territorial legislation. urged That on the other side it might be that the provisions of the present were not made enforceable by Ordinance were Action beyond the boundaries of the Colony and and that as a 25 Company registered under the HongKong Companies Ordinance of 1865 was creation of the Rongkong absolutely a · Legislature, that that Legislature could legally impose any conditions it pleased in return for the privilege of incorporation. That it might not be able to enforce Colony but, that it might be contended that them by Action outside the A it could lay down what must be done by Company within or without the Colony, in order to obtain or retain recognition of its corporate character by the Hongkong bourts, word that while as a company registered in Longkong AS

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