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that question and any other material question relating to the body

shall be determined (and account shall be taken of those laws) as if

that tezzitory were a recognized State.

(2)

(3)

For the purposes of subsection (1)

(a) "a recognized State" is a territory which is

(b)

(c)

recognized by Her Majesty's Government in the United

Kingdom as a "State":

the laws of a territory which is so recognized shall

be taken to include the laws of any part of the

territory which are acknowledged by the federal or

other central government of the territory as a whole;

and

a material question is a question (whether as to

capacity, constitution or otherwise) which, in the

case of a body corporate, falls to be determined by

reference to the laws of the territory under which the

body is incorporated.

Any registration or other thing done at a time before the

coming into operation of this section shall be regarded as valid if

it would have been valid at that time, had subsections (1) and (2).

been in operation.

Explanatory Memorandum

The purpose of this Bill is to enable the courts of Hong Kong,

in determining, whether any body, established under the laws of a

territory which, at the time the question arose for determination -

(a) was not a state recognized by the Government of the

United Kingdom;