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Provisons of

Part of Or- dinance cumulative. 8 Edw. 7 c. 69 s. 273.

Require-

ments as to companies established outside the Colony.

fb. s. 274,

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vest accordingly and the liquidator may, after giving such indemnity (if any) as the court may direct, bring or defend in his official name any action or other legal proceeding relating to that property, or necessary to be brought or defended for the purposes of effectually winding up the company and recovering its property,

251. The provisions of this Part of this Ordinance with respect to unregistered companies shall be in addition to and not in restriction of any provisions hereinbefore in this Ordinance contained with respect to winding up companies by the ear, and the court or liquidator may exercise any powers or do any act in the case of un- registered companies which might be exercised or done by it or him in winding up companies formed and registered under this Ordinance; but an unregistered company shall not, except in the er at of its being wound up, he deemed to be a company maler this Ordinance, and then only to the extent provided by this Part of this Ordinance,

PART IX.

COMPANIES ESTABLISHED OUTSIDE THE COLONY.

252.-(1) Every company incorporated outside the Colony which establishes a place of business within the Colony, shall within one month from the establishment of the place of business die with the registrar of companies —

(a) a certified copy of the charter, statu:es, or me- morandam and articles of the company, or other instrumeat constituting or defining the constitu- tion of the company, and, if the instrument is not written in the English language, a certified translation in the English language thereof; (b) a list of the directors of the company; (c) the names and addresses of some one or more persons resident in the Colony authorised to accept on behalf of the company service of process and any notices required to be served ou the impany;

and, in the event of any alteration being made in any such instrument or in the directors or in the names or addresses of any such persons as aforesaid, the company shall within the prescribed time hie with the registrar a notice of the alteration.

(2) Any procesz or notice required to be served on the company shall be suficiently served if addressed to any person whose name has been so filed as aforesaid and left at or sent by post to the address which has been so filed.

(3) Every company to which this section applies shall in every year file with the registrar such a statement in the form of a balance sheet as would, if it were a company formed and registered under this Ordinance and having a share capital, be req fired under this Ordinance to be included in the aungal summary.

(4) Every company to which this section applies, and which uses the word Limited or the Chinese characters

ĦBA ), as part of its name, shall--

(a) in every prospectus inviting subscriptions for its shares or debentures in the Colony state the country in which the company is incorporated;

and

(b) conspicuously exhibit on every place where it earries a business in the Colony the name of the company and the cona.ry in which the company is incorporated; and

(e) have the name of the company and of the country in which the company is incorporated mentioned in legible characters in all biti-heads and lecter paper, and in all notices, advertise- ments, and other official publications of the

company.

(5) If any company to which this section applies fails to comply with any of the requirements of this section the company, and every officer or agent of the company, shall