CO129-510-15 China (Companies) order in Council- 1925- correspondence 19-4-1928 - 31-12-1928 — Page 35

Changhai, 9th February 1928.

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Mar Bidney Barton, K.B.R., C.M.C.,

Registrar of Companies,

H.B.4's Coneulste-Generaz,

Shanghai.

MATRACE OF HONGKONG NO. 3* (1915)

NADIA CHINA COMPANY TO KEE

ir.

Prior to the year 1915 #11 British concerns had

of necessity to seek incorporation under the provisions

of the Companies Ordinances of Hongkong at Longkong sa

being the only place in China where a register of

Com anies under British jurisdiction existed and this

irrespective of whether any part of the Company's business

was carried on within the limits of the Colony. This

meant that the Companies had to mint in a registered

office in hongkong, where the official register of members

was kept, but under secti n 30 of the nongkong CompanÌ. 68

úrdinance No. 58 of lvll such companies were enabled to

obtain a licence from the registrar of Companies to keep

locl registers and many of thom did so. As a result of

the longkong, Companies ordinance o. 3 of 1915 und the

China Companies order in Council 1915, a Companies'

kerister # ☎ established at listighad and every China

Company, which meɛns "a Company the operations of which

ere directed and controlled from some place within the

limits of the Ching. Companies urder in Council 1915" which

wes on the Register in Hongkong, was transferred to the

Register in Shanghai and us from this year every China

Co pany/