CO129-510-15 China (Companies) order in Council- 1925- correspondence 19-4-1928 - 31-12-1928 — Page 3

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2. F.O.

Vol JIT UP 98.

Keeping of share registers

outside China.

4.10.28

Ein f. his by.

Fa you

observations, please.

Epies of the H.K. & Strails Ordinances

& The Imperial Act are attached.

فشار

17.10.28

Mr. Ellis

I am sorry that this has been

delayed by pressure of other work.

The Crown Advocate's history of this question in Hong Kong (paragraph 4 of his minute) is not exhaustive. I

remember that in 1908 we were in some doubt

as to whether the Hong Kong Legislature had power to adapt the Companies (Colonial Registers) Act, 1883, so as to enable

companies registered in the Colony to keep

branch registers in places outside the

Colony in which they also transacted

business, but the Law Officers advised that

Hong Kong Ordinance 16 of 1907, (on which

Sections 35 to 37 of the present consolidated

not Ordinance 58 of 1911 are founded) was ultra

Λ vires.

The present Petitioners seek

to go further than this and have provision.

made