CO129-613-4 Transfer of registration of China Companies from the United Kingdom to Hong Kong 16-4-1946 - 3-2-1948 — Page 128

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We thought we had met Shanghai's difficulty by saying that the degree of direction and control from Hong Kong would amount in practice to little more than a formality Foreign Office telegram No.132 of 21st May 1946, but evidently, the difficulty would be a real one and Article 4A disposes of it by saying that such a Company may have its registered office in such place as is provided for in its Memorandum of Association (which need not necessarily be Hong Kong).

3. Under the additional Article 4B which it appears from your letter may in fact have already been added, provision is made for the registration in Hong Kong of China Companies which transferred their registration to the United Kingdom during the war under Defence Regulation. No.5 and which now wish to transfer back to Hong Kong in accordance with United Kingdom Defence Regulation 5A.

4. As regards Hong Kong Companies (i.e. non- China Companies) which transferred their registration to United Kingdom during the war and. which now wish to transfer their registration back again, the nec- essary provision. to enable this to be done in Hong Kong will have been made if the Bill which forms the Enclosure No.1 to the Governor's despatch of

27th November 1946 has now been enacted. In the tele- gram to Hong Kong referred to above we will enquire whether the Ordinance has been enacted.

Yours sincerely,

(H. Palmer)

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