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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 17, 1911.

Consequence

upon the dissolution of a Society.

Magistrates, etc., may enter house, etc., where unlawful

meeting held or books, accounts, etc., kept and

ner on any building occupied by such Society, and at the Police Station of the District in which such building may be.

(3.) Every Society against which an order of dissolution is made shall thenceforward he deemed to be an unlawful Society.

17.-(1.) Upon the making of an order of dissolution against any Society the following consequences shall

ensue :--

(a.) The property of the Society within the Colony shall forthwith vest either in the Official Recei- ver in Bankruptey or, if any other officer be appointed for the purpose of winding up by the Governor in the notification of the order, then in such officer.

(3) The Official Receiver in Bankruptcy or such other officer shall proceed to wind up the affairs of the Society, and, after satisfying and pro- viding for all the debts and liabilities of the Society and the costs of the winding-up, shall divide the surplus assets (if any) of the Society amongst the members of the Society according to the rules of such Society (if any), or, if there are no such rules applicable to such case, then equally, but, if by reason of the great number of members, or the difficulty of ascertaining the persons entitled to such assets, or if from any other cause such a division as aforesaid is in the opinion of the Officini Receiver or such other officer as aforesaid impracticable, he shall prepare and submit to a Judge of the Supreme Court for his approval a scheme for the appli- cation of such surplus assets to purposes for the benefit of that portion of the public to which the members of the Society more particularly belonged, or of the public generally.

(c.) Sueb scheme when submitted for approval may be amended by the Judge in such a way as he shall think proper under the circumstances of the case.

(d.) The approval of the Judge to such scheme or amended scheme shall be denoted by the en-

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dorsement thereon of a memorandum of such approval signed by the Judge, and by the same being sealed with the seal of the Court, and upon this being done the surplus assets the subject of such scheme shall be held and applied by the Official Receiver or such other officer as aforesaid upon the terms and to the purposes thereby prescribed.

(e.) For the purpose of the winding-up the Official Reeciver or such other officer shall have all the powers which are vested in the Official Re- reiver by The Bankruptcy Ordinauce 1891 for the purpose of the discovery of the property of a debtor and the realization thereof, and also all such powers as are by the law relating to Companies vested in the Oficial Liquidator; and all the provisions of the Bankruptcy Ordin- ance and of such law, so far as they relate to the discovery and realization of the property of a debtor and to the winding-up of a com- pany, shall mutatis mutandis apply to the winding-up of the affairs of a Society under this Ordinance.

(2.) The Governor-in-Council may for the purpose of enabling a Society to wind up its own affairs suspend the, operation of this section for such period as to him shall seem expedient.

18.-(1.) It shall be lawful for any Magistrate or Justice of the Peace to enter, with or without assistance, or to order any Police Officer or other person in his pre- sence to enter, with or without assistance, using force in either case if necessary, into any dwelling-house or other building, or into any place in which he may have rea- sonable ground to believe that a meeting of any unlawful Society, or of persons who are members of an unlawful

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