CO129-613-4 Transfer of registration of China Companies from the United Kingdom to Hong Kong 16-4-1946 - 3-2-1948 — Page 132

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FOREIGN OFFICE, S.W.1.

3rd April, 1947.

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Dear Palmer,

You will remember that a meeting was held at the Foreign Office last September to discuss the draft Hong Kong Ordinance about the registration of Chinese companies in Hong Kong.

Following this meeting we informed our Embassy in Nanking that the Colonial Office had agreed to telegraph at once to Hong Kong giving them discretion to make the necessary amendments and thereafter to promulgate the Ordinance without further submission to London.

I am now told that the Ordinance has not yet been promulgated and is in fact still being considered by your legal experts. As I cannot find among our files any information on the subject from you subsequent to September, 1946, I should be very grateful if you would kindly let me know what is the present position.

Doubtless our Ambassador in Nanking and Consul- General in Shanghai are being kept informed by the Governor of Hong Kong.

H. Palmer, Esq., . B. E.,

Colonial Office.

Yours sincerely,

Anscott

(A.L. Scott)