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3. Section 134 (1) of the Companies Ordinance, 1932, Amendment is amended by the substitution of the words "the court may of Ordin direct" for the words "they direct" in the fourth line.

ance No. 39 of 1932, s. 134 (1).

4. Section 144 of the Companies Ordinance, 1932, is Repeal of

repealed.

Ordinance No. 39 of 1932, s. 144.

5. Paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of section 251 (1) of the Amendment Companies Ordinance, 1932, are repealed and the following paragraphs are substituted therefor:

(«) all debts due from the Company to the Crown at the relevant date, and having become due and payable within twelve months next before that date;

(b) all wages and salary (including commission provided that the amount thereof is fixed or ascertainable at the relevant date) of any clerk or servant in respect of services rendered to the company during four months before the relevant date, not exceeding three hundred dollars;

(c) all wages of any labourer or workman not exceeding one hundred dollars, whether payable for time or for piece work, in respect of services rendered to the company during four months before the relevant date.

of Ordin- ance No. 39 of 1932, s. 251 (1).

6. The following sub-section is added at the end of Amendment section 263 of the Companies Ordinance, 1932:-

of Ordin- ance No. 39 of 1932,

(8) The Court may direct that the whole or part of any s. 263. costs and expenses properly incurred by the liquidator in proceedings duly brought by him under this section shall be defrayed as expenses incurred by the liquidator under this Ordinance in relation to the winding up of Companies. Sub- ject to any direction under this sub-section and to any mortgages or charges on the assets of the Company and any debts to which priority is given by section 251 of this Ordin- ance, all such costs and expenses as aforesaid shall be payable out of those assets in priority to all other liabilities payable thereout.

7. Section 319 of the Companies Ordinance, 1932, is Substitution repealed and the following section is substituted therefor :---

for Ordin- ance No. 39 of 1932, s. 319.

delivered to

319. (1) Companies incorporated outside the Colony Documents which, after the commencement of this Ordinance, establish &c. to he a place of business within the Colony, shall, within one month to registrar from the establishment of the place of business, deliver to the by companies registrar of companies for registration-

carrying on business in

the Colony. 19 & 20 Geo. 5, c. 23,

(a) a certified copy of the charter, statutes or memoran dum and articles of the company, or other instrument s. 344. constituting or defining the constitution of the company, and, if the instrument is not written in the English language, a certified translation thereof;

(b) a list of the directors of the company, containing such particulars with respect to the directors as are by this Ordinance required to be contained with respect to directors in the register of the directors of a 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 on the company.

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