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Copy.

Enclosure No.3,

HONG KONG.

No. 47 of 1911.

An Ordinance to provide for a more effectual control

over Societies and Clubs.

(LS)

F. D. LUGARD,

Governor.

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Short title.

Interpretation.

17th November, 1911.7

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the

advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof,

as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Societies

Ordinance, 1911."

2. In this Ordinance,-

the word "Society" includes any club, company,

partnership or association of ten or more persons,

whatever be its nature or object, but does not include

(a.) any company registered under the Companies

Ordinance, 1865, or any Ordinance amending or

substituted for the same;

(b.) any company or association constituted under

Royal Charter, Royal Letters Patent, Act, or

Ordinance;

(c.) any Lodge of Freemasons regularly constituted

under any of the registered governing bodies

of Freemasons in the United Kingdom;

(d.) any company, association or partnership,

consisting of not more than twenty persons,

formed for the sole purpose of carrying on

any lawful business;

the words "Registered Society" mean any Society

for the time being registered under this Ordinance;

the words "Exempted Society" mean any Society

for the time being exempted from registration