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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 1, 1911.
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tributed, or of the increase of that amount, as the case may be; and, in default of payment of stamp duty thereon as herein required, the duty with interest thereon at the rate of eight per cent, per annum from the date of delivery of such statement shall be a debt to the Crown and shall be recoverable by the Colonial Treasurer from such registered partner in the same manner as is provided for by the Crown Remedies Ordinance, 1875, in respect of rent due to the Crown.
Penalty for 11. Every one who makes, sigus, sends, or delivers making false for the purpose of registration under this Ordinance any false or incomplete statement known by him to be false or incomplete commits a misdemeanour and shall also be personally liable to an unlimited extent for all debts and obligations of the registered partnership incurred during his partnership therein.
Registrar to file
statement
12. On receiving any statement made in pursuance of this Ordinance the Registrar of Companies shall cause the same to be filed, and he shall send by registered post or certificate of deliver to the partnership from which such statement has registration. been received a certificate of the registration thereof.
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Registrar to keep
register and index and to advertise
13. The Registrar of Companies shall keep at his office, in i proper books to be provided for the purpose, a register and an index of all the partnerships registered as aforesaid, aul of all the statements registered in relation registrations. to such partnerships, and shall as soon as practicable after each registration publish in the Gazette and in one Chinese newspaper circulating in the Colony a notification of the name of the registered partnership and of the name of every registered partner therein.
Inspection of statements registered.
Powers of
14.-(1.) Any person may inspect the statements filed under this Ordinance by the Registrar of Companies, and there shall be paid for each such inspection a fee of one dollar; and any person may require a certificate of the registration of a registered partnership, or a copy of or extract from any registered statement, to be certified by the Registrar of Companies, and there shall be paid for such certificate of registration, certified copy, or extract such fees as the Governor-in-Council may appoint, not exceeding $1 for the certificate of registration, and not exceeding forty cents for each folio of seventy-two words.
(2.) A certificate of registration, or a copy of or extract from any statement registered under this Ordinance, if doly certified to be a true copy under the hand of the Registrar of Companies or one of the Deputy Registrars (whom it shall not be necessary to prove to be the Registrar or Deputy Registrar) shall, in all legal proceedings, civil or criminal, and in all cases whatsoever, be received in evi- dence.
15. The Governor-in-Council may make rules con- Governor-in- cerning any of the following matters :----
Council to make rules.
(a.) The fees to be paid to the Registrar of Companies under this Ordinance so that they do not exceed in the case of the original registration of a limited partnership the sum of twenty dollars and in any other case the sum of three dollars. (3.) The duties or additional duties to be performed by the Registrar of Companies for the purposes of this Ordinance.
(c.) The performance by Deputy Registrars and other officers of acts by this Ordinance required to be done by the Registrar of Companies. (7.) The forms to be used for the purposes of this
Ordinance.
(e.) The publication from time to time in the Gazette of a list of the partnerships registered under
this Ordinance,
(A) Generally the conduct and regulation of registra- tion under this Ordinance and any matters incidental thereto.
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