CO129-397 - Public Offices & Others - 1912 — Page 13

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BOARD OF TRA9614 MAR 12

13th March 1912.

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I am directed by the Board of Frade to refer to your letter of the 15th February (1814-11/12) enclosing

a copy of an Ordinance relating to Companies passed by

the Legislature of Hongkong, together with a copy of a

report thereon by the Attorney-General, and in reply I

am to inform you that the only observation which the

Board of Trade desire to offer is to point out that the

effect of section 253 of the Ordinance is, apparently,

to require British companies incorporated outside the Colony to obtain the special consent of the Governor in

Council to acquire land in the same way as such consent is required by a foreign company, notwithstanding the paragraph in the report of the Attorney-General in which

it is stated that section 253 has been recast with a view

to assimilating the law of the Colony to the law of the United Kingdom. Section 275 of the Imperial Consolida- tion Act provides that a company incorporated in a British possession which has filed with the Registrar certain documents corresponding with those required by section 253(1)(b) of the Hongkong Ordinance shall have the same power to hold lands in the United Kingdom as if it were a company incorporated under the Imperial Act.

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